FIN-ITE 34
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Curious to hear if anybody else had experience with good Sulphur hatches and cooperating fish during the rain on Sunday. For me, the overcast and rainy day made for some very good midday hatching of large numbers of Sulphurs and March Browns.
The best fishing was during the fairly steady rains from about 1-3 with good numbers of large fish slurping duns as they floated down the river. At one of my stops I was parked under a highway bridge out of the rain where I checked out the river for rising fish. Upstream of the bridge I saw a steady rising fish in the middle of the river, which I thought was odd because most fish I had worked earlier were hugging the bank. I figured it was a small fish and I debated going out after that fish in what was now a fairly heavy rain. But I figured since I was parked under the bridge I could get my gear on out of the rain and decided to give a try on that fish. As I approached closer to the rising fish I could see that it was no dink, but a very respectable fish. I had just tied on a size 12 Sulphur Parachute and made a few casts over the rising fish. On about the fifth drift the fish rose and inhaled my fly. I set the hook and BING, popped off the fly. As I pulled in my line to check the tippet I could see that the line had broken at the knot. So either I tied a bad knot, should have replaced that section of tippet that I had been using all morning, or both. In any event I stood there cussing myself thinking that I had a chance at a real nice fish and I managed to muck it up. Well at about that time the damn fish started to rise again, steadily as if nothing had happened. I thought had the trout gods given me another chance for some good deed I may have done? So I replaced the tippet with a new section tied to the tippet ring and tied on a another size 12 parachute. Well I drifted over that fish at least a dozen times without ever a refusal. I started to think that I had blown my chance and with that I noticed some March Browns mixed in with the Sulphurs, so I changed to a Catskill style March Brown ala Matt Grobert. Two drifts later............
This fat pig.
The day produced a number of fish up to twenty inches and a good bunch of smaller fish that I attribute to the inclement weather. It was wet, but it was a fun day.
The best fishing was during the fairly steady rains from about 1-3 with good numbers of large fish slurping duns as they floated down the river. At one of my stops I was parked under a highway bridge out of the rain where I checked out the river for rising fish. Upstream of the bridge I saw a steady rising fish in the middle of the river, which I thought was odd because most fish I had worked earlier were hugging the bank. I figured it was a small fish and I debated going out after that fish in what was now a fairly heavy rain. But I figured since I was parked under the bridge I could get my gear on out of the rain and decided to give a try on that fish. As I approached closer to the rising fish I could see that it was no dink, but a very respectable fish. I had just tied on a size 12 Sulphur Parachute and made a few casts over the rising fish. On about the fifth drift the fish rose and inhaled my fly. I set the hook and BING, popped off the fly. As I pulled in my line to check the tippet I could see that the line had broken at the knot. So either I tied a bad knot, should have replaced that section of tippet that I had been using all morning, or both. In any event I stood there cussing myself thinking that I had a chance at a real nice fish and I managed to muck it up. Well at about that time the damn fish started to rise again, steadily as if nothing had happened. I thought had the trout gods given me another chance for some good deed I may have done? So I replaced the tippet with a new section tied to the tippet ring and tied on a another size 12 parachute. Well I drifted over that fish at least a dozen times without ever a refusal. I started to think that I had blown my chance and with that I noticed some March Browns mixed in with the Sulphurs, so I changed to a Catskill style March Brown ala Matt Grobert. Two drifts later............
This fat pig.
The day produced a number of fish up to twenty inches and a good bunch of smaller fish that I attribute to the inclement weather. It was wet, but it was a fun day.
