Good Day

by Rick
(up state NY)

We are having a stretch of good weather here in the north east .The smaller streams that I like fishing are running at summer levels ,but with good cool temperature . I can not do all I would like to do , but have gotten out fishing all but 3 days since 4/3 .Today was a good one . I managed to bring to hand 2 Brown's . A 12" and 10 " - 5 rainbows 8" - 10" - and one Brooke 6" . I have now caught trout in Mass. , Vermont , and NY . Today I used my Suntech Kurenai H30 with a level #3 and 6X to make a 12' +/- line and leader . The fish where in 3'-4' deap pools formed by falling timber and root balls . The stream was crystal clear . I know I spooked more fish than I caught . It was the most precise fishing I have ever tried . There were many pools I couldn't fish , but would see 2 or more fish in every pool . I used a unweighted Tenkara fly with Brown India hen hackle and black peacock herl size 14 . I hope to go back tomorrow with my Suntech Suikei 39 as I think my little Kurenai was pushed to it's max trying to keep the fish out of the brush . I am blessed to have so much fishing in my area .

“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten” - Benjamin Franklin

"Be sure in casting, that your fly fall first into the water, for if the line fall first, it scares or frightens the fish..." -
Col. Robert Venables 1662

As age slows my pace, I will become more like the heron.

We've all had situations where seriously chewed up flies kept catching fish after fish after fish. It is no sin to tie flies that come off the vise looking seriously chewed up.