First TR of the Year

Took a jaunt down to the River with a friend yesterday. We were
hoping to follow up on his big day Sunday, when he took 20 fish, many
on dries (skated stonefly imitations) . The water was high but still
wadable, temp 51.3F. A brisk SW wind kept the water riffled and made
any risers hard to spot (if there were any). Joe (my friend) and I
leapfrogged runs down the river, with Joe getting short hits on a
beadhead wooly bugger and I getting nada. Finally Joe hooked a brown,
a 10 or 11 incher. After starting with a Lamprey (a lead eyed rabbit
strip thing) I had switched over to a Hornberg. I got one splashy
rise at it and one tug as I brought it back upstream under water. And
that was it. (Even tried a nymph dropper.)

A few stoneflies were coptering around and maybe some very small
microcaddis but thats all the bugs we saw. (Lots of ducks though.) A
slow day for sure but still great to actually get some River time .

A few pics:

http://fishskicanoe.tripod.com/geopics/IMG_0083a.jpg


http://fishskicanoe.tripod.com/geopics/IMG_0084a.jpg

hth


g.c.