Morris County WTS

[strike proof]

I got out for a few hours on Saturday to a nearby WTS. Stone flies of all sizes were in the air and laying eggs everywhere, but I didn't see a single trout take any. One long, flat pool and one plunge pool had splashy rises. I got one refusal and no takes on stone dries or attractors. There were spotty hatches of small mayflies, so I converted to an olive emerger and caught one , returned to the pool I had thrashed earlier and caught one on a klinkhammer .

Does anyone else depend on the klinkhammer? I started fishing it a few years ago and use it frequently alone or in a dry/dropper situation. I'm not even sure what it's supposed to imitate (generic emerger?), but it has been very productive for me. It seems like we don't talk about it much on this board. Does anyone else fish it? When and how?

 

[Rusty Spinner]

Klinkhammer is a tying style and it can be used for midges or mayflies. Upper Passaic or Flanders Brook?

 

[strike proof]

Upper Passaic. Still hard to believe it's the same as the broad, muddy Passaic I'll see from the highway later today. How'd you decide? Two species, one WTS?

Thanks for the info on the klinkhammer. I only really find them in one color, but maybe I just haven't been looking right...

 

[Rusty Spinner]

How'd you decide? Two species, one WTS?

Only three rivers in Morris County have wild bows. One is the SBR which is currently closed. That leaves its one trib and the one you fished in the other drainage.

As for Klinkhammers, I've fished ones that friends have tied, but I've never tied them myself. My buddy Darren ties some awesome ones for midge hatches, but I'm all out. Time to buy that man a few cold ones and restock my Klinks.:beer:

 

[Oliver10]

"Only three rivers in Morris County have wild bows." I can think of another, maybe another 2 if you count tribs.

 

[Oliver10]

"Only three rivers in Morris County have wild bows." I can think of another, maybe another 2 if you count tribs.

I posted this before in the fall. Rusty this one came out of the pool I was telling you about by PM. I could not find a way to attach a picture to PM

 

[Rusty Spinner]

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I posted this before in the fall. Rusty this one came out of the pool I was telling you about by PM. I could not find a way to attach a picture to PM

Thanks for the PM. I forgot about the one and didn't know about the other. It's always been a bit of a mystery why most NJ streams do not have natural reproduction of rainbows, but do for brookies and browns. A lot of folks feel pH is the culprit, but I'm not so sure. I'll have to pick our state biologists' brains one day soon to get their input.

 

[falcon]

Acid Rain .... I beleive this was determined a while back on a study on Van Campens brook. I remember reading about it somwhere.

 

[Philthy Phil]

Yes Klinks are great, as RS said its just a tying style...basically a parachute on a curved hook. I researched them a while back and if I remember correctly they were developed for grayling somewhere in Europe.
Having the body hang in the film can make the difference sometimes. I'm not a big fan of regular parachutes but the Klinks work well...especially for olives and other mayflies that hang in the film.

That said I tie more hair wing emergers these days...they're a quicker tie and equally if not more effective...and I like catching fish more than tying

 

[Rusty Spinner]

Acid Rain .... I beleive this was determined a while back on a study on Van Campens brook. I remember reading about it somwhere.

That would affect pH, but why do many streams have natural reproduction while others do not, I wonder? For example, the Pequest and Musky share the same limestone aquifer yet only the Pequest has rainbow reproduction. The other streams are all more or less regular freestoners that have wild bows.

That said I tie more hair wing emergers these days...they're a quicker tie and equally if not more effective...and I like catching fish more than tying

That's why I never tie them, they are too tough for my sausage-like fingers to tie in smaller sizes.

 

[gregschmegg]

Tied and fished my first Klinkhammer this weekend on the pequest. Hooked a half dozen on a size #18 olive pattern. Great pattern! ... takes a beating, floats like a cork and sits flat in the film. worth the time learning to tie.