JUly 14th, 08

Tuesday Night Q&A

Date: July 14, 2008 at 14:32:46
From: ken, [pool-64-222-41-44.prov.east.verizon.net]
Subject: JUly 14th, 08

July 14th, 08
Went trout fishing again to the Farmington. Stayed with Paul Rossman again and fished with the same two fellows I fished with the last time and Denise.
Went way down river the fist day and had a very good time fishing for trout in the middle of July in the daytime and there were no lack of trout. The water was cool even so far downstream fro the trout management area and there was more than enough water flowing to make it interesting and fun. I had thought of fishing the rips at Watch hill this weekend in my boat but decided to take a bus-man's holiday and enjoy the woods and sweet water and I had a new rod I designed and wanted to try it out and see what it could do. I designed it to be able to cast down to a three weight so I could offer a Salmo Sax in a lighter version that would be suitable for trout and a few other things and it is that and more.

I wanted to see how it would fare as a nymph rod as it is ten and a half feet and has the length and flex to handle long lines and cast to the far side of the river if needed.
It casts short and medium and long and loads with a three weight line to boot! It also handles a nine wt line with ease and holds it high in the air with no effort and I have been catching stripers with it for about three weeks. This was its debut with trout and deep nymphing techniques. I am very pleased and am going to do a bit of tweaking but I won’t have to do much. Change a guide here and there and redesign a new reel seat for the fresh water version. I won’t have it ready to sell for a while maybe close to a year but hopefully less. The other thing it does is handle line beyond my hopes and if you have to make a long cast in glass water with a tiny dry it does it with very little effort at all. Long leaders straighten right out. The range is amazing and it also fishes short. I am a bit excited about it.
So, enough about that rod. Except for this. A three to a nine and effortless with both ends and everything in between.

Where we fished was rocky and cold and slippery as one can imagine. Tough wading and greased cannonballs everywhere and long hikes but well worth the effort.
No people either where we fished the first day or that is no small thing. What a great trout river the Farmington actually is over its whole length or at least as far down stream from the management area that I have seen. That is about twenty five miles down maybe a little less. What a gem.

Last night we fished into the darkness up above the management area for fussy trout in glassy water. They were rising in good numbers and were on something that I never discovered but I have a few ideas. I had two nudges and one take but I was dozing and never struck. There were Light Cahill's hatching and Denise was watching the cedar wax wings eat every one as they left the surface and the swallows were homing in on them both in the air and on the surface. She rescued a couple and walked them to the shore and placed them on the leaves of trees and wished them luck.

I love the not knowing that comes with trout fishing and the challenge of wanting to come back and figure it out the next day or the next week or the next month and I wish that, that river ran through my back yard. I have met a few people that moved there so that it would run through their back yard and I envy them. For many years now I have been saying that I was not old enough yet to enjoy trout fishing the way I would like to do it and have stuck mostly to the salt for about twenty of those years. I am old enough now and I am happy I am still around to savor the real fishing challenges that it offers.
Fly fishing for trout is a perfect way to fly fish.
I am so grateful to may dad for initiating me into it at such a young age.
I am also grateful to Denise for the Beaverkill the Esopus, the West branch and the East Branch of the Delaware and the Housatonic and the Willowemoc and the Farmington and soon the Ausable and the upper Conn.
And,
I hope I have enough years left to add many more incredible rivers to this list.

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Re: July 14th, 08 part two ken 15-Jul-2008 10:05:14 (3)

The million dollar question The Fisherman 15-Jul-2008 12:55:45 (2)

That's "everywhere" nt The Fisherman 15-Jul-2008 12:56:50 (1)

Re: That's "everywhere" nt ken 15-Jul-2008 12:59:59 (0)

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