10" Brookie on a #10 Dave's Hopper from the East Fork Sinnemahoning River, Wharton Twp, Pa. June 2000. Still have and fish that Orvis 865-2 Clearwater fly rod I received as a Father's day gift just a week before!
10" Brookie on a #10 Dave's Hopper from the East Fork Sinnemahoning River, Wharton Twp, Pa. June 2000. Still have and fish that Orvis 865-2 Clearwater fly rod I received as a Father's day gift just a week before!
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My first fish on a fly rod was a small rainbow caught from the Current River in Missouri. I had fished for trout since I was about 6, but never with a fly rod.
I caught that first "fly rod fish" on a #18 BWO. I was moving upstream from one hole to another when I saw some splashing in a very narrow, shallow run.
Since the water was pretty skinny, it was moving pretty quickly. I couldn't see any trout in there, but the splashing caught my eye.
I waited and observed for a few minutes...and sure enough, there were some trout rising. I could see some small gray bugs flying about so I figured a BWO was the closest thing I had. I tied it on and had a strike immediately. I have a picture of that little fish somewhere. It was no great fish by any means. But it was my first with a fly. I was probably hooked better than that little rainbow was.
Dont remember my first fish on a fly rod but I do remember my first wild brookie. Caught on the Rapidan in the SNP .a beautiful 8 " one that would have rivaled the finest French watercolor. Caught a bunch that day and while I enjoy catching large trout, there is something special about a mtn. stream wild trout on a two or three wt.
it's all good drifts
1954, Reverse Creek, June Lake, CA...
...on a custom fiberglass rod made by Ralph Dadasman of the Long Beach Casting Club...
PT/TB
Daughter to Father, "How many arms do you have, how many fly rods do you need?"
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