Guide Trip Report: 9/1/07 KLG

Boy, what a beautiful day it was yesterday on the water. Air temps in the 70's, water temps below 65 and not a cloud in the sky! Richard from Asbury, NJ joined me for a day in the KLG, during which he landed his first fly rod caught fish as well as first trout ever.

After we spent some time discussing fly selection, the nature of the South Branch, and all of the cons of using strike indicators in water like the KLG, we set out to fish. Richard had a decent stocked brown to net in the second run he fished.


After lunch, Richard landed a beauty of a holdover brown. About 14" and fat. I certainly didn't catch a fish this nice my first time out!


Water was 63.8 by mid afternoon which is great to see. We really got through the month of August without any prolonged thermal distress to the fish.

Not a whole lot of anything coming off or falling in the morning. A few Tricos early, then sporadic midge, black caddis and Iso's throughout the day.

We stayed subsurface the entire day and by the time we called it quits Richard landed a half dozen, LDR'ed a few and missed a bunch of strikes. All in all a great first day for Richard on the South Branch. We were fishing two fly rigs and could really see how both flies can play off one another to our advantage.

Video Test:
I had to get a message to Bonnie, but could not get service from my car while we ate lunch. So... I took my phone out on the water to a place I know I can always get service. While the phone was in my hand I took a quick stream side video of the stream and Richard nymphing below "the cave". (Some of you out there may know this spot) Anyway, I noticed Blogger now allows videos to be placed in blogs. If this works, I will try to get video up on my reports on a regular basis.

(Well....video ok, audio.... not so much.) (Actually, the banging sound you hear is the steel going up for the new KLG parking deck! ;)
Another decent brown and the release.




BTW... If you live in the Highland Park area, be sure to stop by Richard's UPS store on Raritan Ave(Route 27) for all of your shipping/receiving and packaging needs!