All in all it was a beautiful day on water with some phenomenal dry fly fishing. As a nice end to the day, on the drive home, Shep and I both found out that we passed our Boards.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Fishing with Board Certified Radiologists
Studying for Boards has really put a damper on the trout fishing of late. Fortunately, my friend Shep and I both took our exams early in the week. Finally freed from the shackles of academia we were able to head out to the mountains on Friday for a fine day of trout fishing. We both had to be back by mid afternoon so we decided to leave as early as we could. Sooo, in the predawn darkness we started west. We arrived at the river at about 7:45 and were fishing by just after 8. Shep went to check out the river while I was wadering up and saw multiple fish rising right near where we parked and it was promising to be a great day for fishing. Numerous bugs were hatching including small yellow sallies, a number of small mayflies, and some gigantic green drakes and the fish were really keyed in to the surface activity. The dry fly fishing was fantastic and Shep made it look easy. We caught a bunch of brookies on the surface including some nice ones. One fish even nailed a size 10 parachute green drake. Unfortunately there was a little trash (mostly beer cans) around the river, likely owing to the easy access, and at one point we came across a little camp with an improvised stick hut. We were a little concerned about a troll jumping out and attacking us for crossing his river but it turned out OK.
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ReplyDeleteDry River and Skidmore Fork - 5/28/2010
Water temp 54 at about 08:15 hrs.
The air temp got into the high 70's and was still comfortable when we were leaving at around 13:00 hrs.
Water level was near perfect for dry fly fishing and the area probably got a little rain the night before.
Saw assorted size 14ish mayflies flying around. There were some size 16 yellow sallies and a few gigantic, size 8-10ish, eastern green drakes. Size 14-16 ants were beginning to move around stream side as well.
Caught a lot of brookies and most were caught on size 14 parachute Adams and size 14 parachute Mr Rapidans. One fish was caught on a size 10ish parachute Green Drake pattern.
Saw no other fisherman on the stream but there were a few beer cans and one makeshift campsite near the stream. However, there was some guy off in the distance squeezing off 4 or so shots in rapid succession with some relatively loud sounding gun. Couldn't have possibly hit what he was aiming at with anything past the first shot.
Nice Blog, congrats on boards. Fishing has a way of taking your mind away from the stresses of life. All you got to stress about is which fly to use...
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