ISKski
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Let me preface this by saying, this fish was caught illegally before season because I screwed up and mis-read the PA Fish and Boat Commissions interactive map (which needs some work IMO, because when you choose a filter and refresh the map, it still shows all the options and i thought i was looking at approved year round trout fishing ONLY) and after I caught the fish and went home to do more research on this stream I learned that i was wrong, and I do apologize to my fellow PA fishermen and I will not go fishing again until the season starts! (but I am actually kind of glad because, i think it was easeir for me as a beginner to go before the fish had gotten used to being fished)
But two summers ago while working on a project in vermont I was taught how to fly fish, I instantly fell in love with it (but hadn't had a chance to try again except once last summer). Over christmas 2010 I went to cabelas and got the basic fly-fishing starter kit set up for around $150 I think its a 7 1/2 ft 3 wt - 2 piece graphite rod. And I went to my local fly shop (TCO in bryn mawr) check em out if your in the area, and the guys there hooked me up with a few flies and showed me how to tie the knots (which i forgot and ill explain later)
So I spent about 2.5 hours till I caught my fist fish, and I tried several larger flies that have the white shoot on the top i think its called an adams fly
I had only tried "dry fly" fishing so thats what I went for - easy to see in the water , but it went by the fish right over the heads time and time again, to no avail.
But you could see them popping up everywhere to eat at the surface.
So i switched to a small black fly with a green body, of which i have no idea of the name.. but it kind of looks like this one on top 2nd in from the left
and after i switched to this little guy, my casts actually became better, not sure why, and i had gotten two serious bites off this fly. but as I said before I didn't quite remember how to tie my flies correctly and twice, I had lost a fly trying to set the hook, or i guess when the fish went to take it.. And I've been stewing over that since the moment it happened because i feel really bad for those fish due to my negligence (if they have the hooks stuck in them) So when I switched over to my next fly, i tied it on with an overhand knot (def not the "right" way to do it)
But after losing two flies within a few minutes of each other (and these were the only ones of this kind that I had), I know I could get my first fish! I could feeeeel it.. So i switched over to the only fly I had that looked similar.. but it instantly sank half way in the water when i casted it, what i guess is called "nymph" fishing as opposed to fishing on the surface of the water - dry fly fishing.
First cast, hit right out in the middle of the stream, and just let it float back into the pool these guys were sitting in, AND BAM, i got 'em, a beautiful 10'' (estimated) rainbow stockie .. I'll let the pictures to the rest of the blabbing
A shoutout to my lovely girlfriend marie - who said she had a great time, sitting there in the sun listing to her audio book on her iphone, un - tangling my line for me every 5 mines, God I love her and she also happens to by my photographer, these may have been an accident
I def need to get a net, so I don't have to yank on them like this, I felt bad for them, For my noobness SORRY FISHIES
Got 'em! funny how the button looks like his eye
I couldn't get the hook out with my hand
so here is me screaming for the sutuers
Tried to keep him in the water as much as possible, this is where the net really comes in handy as well
and here he/she is, what a beaut
and there she goes.....
All in all It was amazing, it was a "new years resolution" of mine to catch my first trout on a fly line, and I did it, now i can't wait for the season to start so i can hit up all the streams and have another hobby to go broke on!!
Thanks for taking a look, and Once again I apologize about going before season to the state, the law, the fishermen and the fish.
ISK
p.s. As a knife knut i should note that i lost my little clipper tool on the wayout there, and my black SAK tinker filled the roles of cutting line pretty seamlessly and I can't wait for my two customs to come in (a slip joint and a small fixed blade cause they're GON' FiSHIN)
But two summers ago while working on a project in vermont I was taught how to fly fish, I instantly fell in love with it (but hadn't had a chance to try again except once last summer). Over christmas 2010 I went to cabelas and got the basic fly-fishing starter kit set up for around $150 I think its a 7 1/2 ft 3 wt - 2 piece graphite rod. And I went to my local fly shop (TCO in bryn mawr) check em out if your in the area, and the guys there hooked me up with a few flies and showed me how to tie the knots (which i forgot and ill explain later)
So I spent about 2.5 hours till I caught my fist fish, and I tried several larger flies that have the white shoot on the top i think its called an adams fly
I had only tried "dry fly" fishing so thats what I went for - easy to see in the water , but it went by the fish right over the heads time and time again, to no avail.
But you could see them popping up everywhere to eat at the surface.
So i switched to a small black fly with a green body, of which i have no idea of the name.. but it kind of looks like this one on top 2nd in from the left
and after i switched to this little guy, my casts actually became better, not sure why, and i had gotten two serious bites off this fly. but as I said before I didn't quite remember how to tie my flies correctly and twice, I had lost a fly trying to set the hook, or i guess when the fish went to take it.. And I've been stewing over that since the moment it happened because i feel really bad for those fish due to my negligence (if they have the hooks stuck in them) So when I switched over to my next fly, i tied it on with an overhand knot (def not the "right" way to do it)
But after losing two flies within a few minutes of each other (and these were the only ones of this kind that I had), I know I could get my first fish! I could feeeeel it.. So i switched over to the only fly I had that looked similar.. but it instantly sank half way in the water when i casted it, what i guess is called "nymph" fishing as opposed to fishing on the surface of the water - dry fly fishing.
First cast, hit right out in the middle of the stream, and just let it float back into the pool these guys were sitting in, AND BAM, i got 'em, a beautiful 10'' (estimated) rainbow stockie .. I'll let the pictures to the rest of the blabbing
A shoutout to my lovely girlfriend marie - who said she had a great time, sitting there in the sun listing to her audio book on her iphone, un - tangling my line for me every 5 mines, God I love her and she also happens to by my photographer, these may have been an accident
I def need to get a net, so I don't have to yank on them like this, I felt bad for them, For my noobness SORRY FISHIES
Got 'em! funny how the button looks like his eye
I couldn't get the hook out with my hand
so here is me screaming for the sutuers
Tried to keep him in the water as much as possible, this is where the net really comes in handy as well
and here he/she is, what a beaut
and there she goes.....
All in all It was amazing, it was a "new years resolution" of mine to catch my first trout on a fly line, and I did it, now i can't wait for the season to start so i can hit up all the streams and have another hobby to go broke on!!
Thanks for taking a look, and Once again I apologize about going before season to the state, the law, the fishermen and the fish.
ISK
p.s. As a knife knut i should note that i lost my little clipper tool on the wayout there, and my black SAK tinker filled the roles of cutting line pretty seamlessly and I can't wait for my two customs to come in (a slip joint and a small fixed blade cause they're GON' FiSHIN)
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