Northern Brookies

[underthefloat]

This is my first post in here. My main thing is steelhead from september to June. I am a float fisherman, Aaron knows me well I taught him most of what he knows about the Centerpin.

Well anyway, I have decided to start chucking flies for stream trout again and have found that it is a lot like riding a bike only better with all of the river knowlegde I hjave gained since i was a teenager.

The last few days i have been chasing Some awesome wild brookies with a modifies euro nymphing technique. Let's say it's rather productive. I have hooked well over forty fish a day with the first day being the best of couse. (these fish have no prssure I never saw another fisherman and the only sign of anyone else was a couple of old foot prints and a couple of rusty hooks with dried worms hung in trees from the april opener) Here are some pics.

[underthefloat]

Here are some links to the pictures I took yesterday.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/09...out5-18007.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/09...out5-18008.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/09...out5-18009.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/09...out5-18010.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/09...out5-18011.jpg

[underthefloat]

Some of the Bigger ones
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/09...out5-18013.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/09...out5-18014.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/09...out5-18017.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/09...out5-18020.jpg

[BlackLabel]

Welcome aboard. I'd like to hear about your modified euro technique. I do the same thing myself sometimes. For the tiny creeks I go to (10-15 feet wide) I use a 7'6'' 3wt rod, then a 9ft 5x tappered leader cut down to about 4 1/2 feet tied to my sighter. From the sighter I use 4 to 4 1/2 feet of 6x flouro tippet to my fly or flies. With this leader you can do the regular short line approach or you can actually roll cast it pretty well. When you roll cast it you lose alot of your feel but as long you keep the sighter out of the water you can still see the takes,

[underthefloat]

I'm using about four feet of a 9ft. tapered leader with about 5 feet of 5x frogs hair floro to my first fly wich is most of the time the wieghted olive caddis with the pink hot spot and beadhead. That fly is tied with lead on the hook and the bead so it is real heavy size 12 and 14. to my second fly is 3lb floro and it's a size 14 copper john. These flies have been the big producers in this stream it's loaded with caddis and other bugs. The stick case caddis are literally everywhere in the slow water on the bottom the larva inside are cream colored and like 1 to 1 1/2 inches long. So another good fly has been a cream caddis on a size 12 with an orange or pink hot spot. no bead on these just lead.

Oh and I'm using a small strike indicator I keep it high when I'm in the fast water and feeling the strikes from down stream but I slide it down to keep it just off of the lumber in the slow streches.

[AaronJasper]

You'll be caatching those steelhead on a flu rod soon I see it in your future! Tell them about getting hammered on the wooly bugger at the Black!

[underthefloat]

Steelhead are meant to be caught under the float. The only chance you will ever have of seeing me targeting chrome with a flea flicker is maybe someday swinging a spey fly on the Kitty in the spring. I'm about the ultimate drift and numbers when it comes to the tug of a steelhead.

However yes i did take an average 8lb drop back in the Black River a few weeks ago swinging a Black Bugger for bass. I needed to put a bend in the new 5wt. and got crushed in 6 feet of water just six inches under the surface and the battle was on.

[terry13111]

Cool pics. I am mainly a smallstream fisher myself. When using a nymph, I use a strike indicator set about the same depth as the water I am fishing. Not a pursit presentation by any means, but it works.

[paddy]

Nice brookie pics. Keep'em coming...

[terry13111]

I am more of a occasional angler than avid. I have a lot of family time and little fishing time, so excuse my ignorance, but, what is a "sighter" and euro nymphing??? I am interested and willing to learn. Thanks.