Creek Addict

The wife and I spent the weekend at the beautiful Eastman Inn in North Conway, New Hampshire over Memorial Day weekend. The weather was great, the breakfast was amazing (as always), the scenery was gorgeous and the fishing was just okay. The fish were there, however, and if I did more exploring, I’m sure the fishing would have been much better. I didn’t fish as much as I normally do; even the Creek Addict needs to relax every now and then.

Small NH stocker.

These stockers are in pretty good shape.

Crystal clear water.

Mt. Washington Valley.

Ugly Ellis River Rainbow release.

Texas flats.

Didn’t quite make sunrise.

View from the condo.

One of the many trash fish I caught this weekend. No reds, no specks. Pretty disappointing, really. I’ll get em next time.

Not a good weekend for fishing(rain, wind, heat, strep throat). Caught lots of trash fish. At least I got to spend a lot of time with the family. More to come tomorrow.

I fished with Nick Naclerio and Aaron Jasper from TPO this weekend up in the Catskills. Saturday morning started out on the Beaverkill. The water was high, and looked like chocolate milk. Swinging big streamers netted a few fish. We only fished the Beaverkill for about an hour and a half before deciding to head to another stream.

The conditions at the new stream were pretty good. The water was really moving though. I was the only one out of the three of us to not go down. Aaron (who managed to out fish us about 8 to 1) took a nasty swim down some really fast pocket water. He literally went head first into some rocks, smashing his hand, knee and ankle pretty good. That didn’t stop him from fishing though (or landing the biggest fish of the day in his boxer shorts). The video of him landing the big fish in his boxers is a testament to the type of day we had. Really fun, to say the least. Days on the water like that, are days you will talk about years from now. It’s not everyday you see a soaking wet fisherman net a 20 inch wild brown in his boxer shorts. The mosquitoes were a little crazy down there at times, I’m still scratching my arms, hands and neck while I’m typing this. Given a chance though, I’d do it all again. My weekends will be filled with fishing trips and fishing classes in the near future, but as soon as I get some free time, I know where I’m going.

Beaverkill Brown.

Aaron getting freaky with a sucker.

Nick’s sweet brookie.

Little wild brown.

Aaron’s 20 inch brown. Looks like a heron got to it.

Some dry fly action 10 minutes before it was dark.










Video isn’t in HD, it’s still pretty funny.

Nick Naclerio from TPO was busy tying over the weekend and sent me another great fly. Thanks, Nick!

Materials
TMC 2487 size 8-12 (These can be tied smaller of course)
Jan Siman Flat Lead medium
Raymond C. Rumpf & Son 8/0 black
1/8” light olive Scud Back
.006 monofilament
Spirit River Dazl Hare’s Ear dark olive
Spirit River Pseudo Seal Dubbing neon pink
Davy Wotton SLF Squirrel Dubbing black

Fix the hook in the vise and in touching turns, apply one layer of flat lead.

Apply second layer of flat lead in touching turns. Start one turn short of the previous layer and finish one turn short of the previous layer.

Cover the lead underbody with the tying thread.

Tie in the mono rib.

Tie in the scud back down to the bend of the hook past the lead under body.

Dub a somewhat thin body using the dark olive Hare’s Ear.

Dub a thin hot spot of neon pink dubbing.

Touch dub a small head using the SLF black squirrel.

Pull the Scud Back tightly over the center of the back of the fly. Tie off the Scud Back and clip the extra. Tip: Half hitch your thread to prevent losing your Scud Back.

Rib the body with evenly spaced turns using the mono. Tie off the mono and clip off extra. Whip finish your fly. Tip: When ribbing the body support the hook with one hand and really crank directly down with the mono.

Pick out some legs from the black dubbing. Color the first 2 1/2 segments with Sharpie Marker (black). Apply clear head cement to the colored segments of the scud back for a nice shine.

Enjoy this fly guys! Don’t be afraid to experiment with different color dubbing and scud back.

Got to fish the gorge section of the Neversink this weekend up here in New York. The place is GORGEOUS. The water was clear and low, so the fish were a bit spooky, but that didn’t stop me from netting my fair share of wild fish. I got everything from little guys to decent sized browns. I didn’t get the 20 incher I was looking for, but the beauty of the fish and surroundings made up for it.

This is the best wild brookie I’ve ever caught. Unfortunately he jumped out of my hands before I could get a decent picture of him. He took a size 12 Deep Sparkle Pupa, and must have been 10-11 inches. All the fish caught this weekend were caught euro nymphing. The pocket water netted some small browns and brookies, but the nice fish could all be found laying low in the deepest pockets and pools.

Nice little brown.

Beautiful golden color on this one.

Pretty little ‘Sink brookie. No where near the size of the big one I caught.

Nice size brown.

Best fish of the weekend. I took him out of some REALLY fast water. These wild fish really can put a bend in that 10′ 3wt I’ve been using. There were a lot of little fish that didn’t get their pictures taken, but every single one of them looked really good.

Time for some HD Goodness.

Here’s the good one.