Guide Trip Report: 11/3/07 KLG

Josh from Englewood, NJ came out for a full day of fishing on the South Branch. An experienced saltwater fly fisherman, Josh was looking to expand his arsenal of techniques in the trout world, and specifically hone his approach to fishing nymphs. A secondary goal was to learn some of the Ken Lockwood Gorge and maybe even land a few trout!

By all accounts Josh had a very successful day. Water temp was 48 degrees in the AM and flow was around 80 cfs. A gusty wind was putting some leaves in the water, but all in all a beautiful day. I don't think we fished a stretch of water 20 yards or greater without Josh at least rolling a fish.

By days end, Josh had landed about 10 fish and had lost several more. One really nice aspect of Josh's catch was that the majority were wild fish (browns).

Some nice wild fish from Saturday:















Of course, a fat, rod bending stockie sprinkled in here and there is nice as well :)



Being mindful of the leaves in the water, we tried to stick with some patterns that had non-leaf/debris characteristics to them. This is an important fly choice factor over the next couple of weeks. (I am going to try and do a fly pattern post dedicated to this sometime this week)

Broke the new camera in and took some cool underwater videos as well.
Here is a rainbow after release. Still need to get a feel for framing subjects underwater, fish finally cooperates.

Releasing a small wild brown.


Here's Josh landing his best (sizewise) fish of the day.