Guide Trip Report: 8/23/07 BFB

John from Hoboken and Tom from Livingston took advantage of this past week's unseasonably cold, wet weather and came out with me for their third trip of the season.

As pointed out in an earlier blog post, the Big Flatbrook area got left out of alot of summer thunderstorms this season and essentially ran at 30 to 40cfs (low) all summer with virtually no bumps in flow. This week, the Flatbrook finally got a decent bump in water and we decided to seize the moment.

As usually for late summer on the BFB, a lot of fish have been taken out and the ones that have made it through have become much more selective since their humble Pequest beginnings.

Lots of Isonychia shucks around and all fish caught were fat. We could tell the recent bump in rain had really infused the stream with a lot of food for the fish and they (the fish) had gone on a binge.

Nice Iso. shuck specimen


Fish were taken on some small caddis dries as well as midge larva fished in the film and beneath. Lots of selective surface feeding all day long.

All in all a nice day on the BFB. (especially for late August)

Here is Tom, playing the first fish of the morning from the Showcase.

(Tom also landed a nice forearm trout later in the morning :)

John's well fed brown to conclude the afternoon.