Ever since watching the Joe Humphries DVD on night fishing about ten years ago, I have been fascinated with catching trout in the darkness. Then I met good friend and excellent fly fisherman, Tony Scuderi. It was all over then! He has night fishing for trout figured out like no other.


Some flies

The "goody bag"

A "decent" brown!

The takes are violent, and there is usually no one else on the stream. I think that its the height of excitement in fly fishing well maybe a fierce hatch and ensuing dry fly madness might rival it.

We were going to fish the big river, a tailwater in New York but with an increased release of 1,100 cfs, that curtailed our plans. We instead tried a smaller area tailwater stream. We knew the fishing wasnt going to be as good, but what the heck, we gave it a go!

We had a total of 8 tugs and we landed 7 of them. Not bad for a small stream. Large streamers hand twisted did the trick. The largest fish was around 22 inches.