Creek Addict

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Alicia and I decided to stop by the shit hole and meet up with Nick for a quick fix while we were out shopping for baby stuff on Saturday. The conditions weren’t great, but we managed a carp a piece before we had to run more errands. I was more excited to watch Alicia catch one than actually catching my own. If you haven’t been keeping up with the blog, I went fishing with Pete McDonald from Fishing Jones about two months ago. Unfortunately, Pete had to leave before he could net one of these smelly bastards (See this post). So, I’m pretty much putting this video up as a response from my wife officially calling Pete out.

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My little guy. This fish has obviously been stuck in the lips before, and from the looks of it, it wasn’t a size 12 streamer hook.

Ken Sperry from FlyFishingReporter.com had asked me to make a fly tying video for the Creek Addict caddis pupae for a new site he’s developing. From what I’ve read, the new site will be called the Fly Tying Channel, and should debut sometime next week. To learn more about his new site, check out this post from Fly Fishing Reporter.


This is my first fly tying video, so please let me know what you guys think. I’ve defaulted it to play in HD from my site, if you have any loading issue, try viewing it in normal quality.

The wife and I spent our 4th of July holiday up in New Hampshire at her father’s bed and breakfast, The Eastman Inn. (Mention creekaddict.com and get 10% off your next stay.) I guess for the past week or so they had been getting some serious rain, which, obviously, caused the rivers to be ridiculously high. Luckily the rain stopped long enough for us to watch some fireworks and catch a few fish.

I fished the Androscoggin River on Friday up near Errol, NH. The river was high, and moving really fast, so wading was not an option. I decided to euro nymph the slower pockets near the dam and netted myself a few fish. I actually caught a small landlocked salmon, my first ever, and snapped a few shots of the little guy. I also caught a small mouth, and a small brown. Not a stellar day, but just catching a few in those conditions was all I could ask for.

Saturday and Sunday I stayed near the inn and fished a slower section of the Ellis River near Jackson. The river was high but manageable. I caught a few stockers there and decided my time was probably better spent on the porch drinking beer than in the freezing water catching stockies. (The water there is still 58 degrees!) The fishing up there is normally amazing, but with all the rain and high water, the fishing just wasn’t that good. Others that I talked to had the same experience as me. Last year at this time we where catching so many you couldn’t count em. This year, you worked your ass off for a small number of stockers. In retrospect, I should have fished some of the mountain ponds, or the smaller wild brookie streams. I probably would have had a lot more fish to talk about. In any case, it’s beautiful country up there, and it’s always a treat just to be up there on the river, regardless of the catching.

Close up of the land locked salmon. I was stoked to finally catch one of these things, even if it’s a small one.

We have yet to see a moose in NH. My wife has never seen one in the wild so I tried to give her an idea of what one might look like.

The raging Androscoggin River.

I want to know how big that shark must have been to nom nom a marlin that size in half.

Skills….
I think the dude in the video pretty much sums it up, “that was awesome”.