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Sid Aslin
Participant1 Olive Wooly bugger The first one that I bought before hooking up with FATC was from Darrel Bentley He ran the fly shop for a while at Reed’s Cabins. He told me “toss it out and let it drift and slowly retieve it in. Pay attention as right before you lift it out of the water out of nowhere a trout wil often grab it”. He is right and that has happened so many times where I just take a second or 2 longer before lifting it from the water and will often catch a trout. We owe a lot of the good fishing to Darrel because he was the “game warden” at Montauk before he retired and tried to get a fly shop going at Reeds Cabins. FYI He was a Vietnam Veteran and his body is buried in the Cemetery as you leave the park and his wife Bonnie works at the park and if you ever call down there to make camping reservations you will probably speak to her.
2 Yellow Sally Dry fly fishing is the the best and they can be big so even me with my poor eyesight can see the trout swim up and grab them and when you hear “gulp” set the hook!
3 San Juan worm under a bobber (sory Kenny I know they are called strike indicators!)
4 p&P
5 Red Worm
6 Black Wooly Bugger
My favorite flies were really the ones in my Dad’s fly box, but they were mostly popping bugs that he used on ponds for bluegills! I never got the hang of it so he bought me live crickets and we always caught fish!
ParticipantBill,great question and the gist of it is something that Ken and I have discussed numerous times so I will hopefully save you a lecture! The problem with mop head is that they really do not imitate anything natural. They only work because the irritate the fish and then the fish will strike at them. The reason that we use a fly rod rather than a spinning rod is so we can make a more natural presentation with it. I hate it when I am fishing at Montauk in the fly area and I see a guy catching fish and I know that they are using an illegal bait. When I will usually make a comment to them on the water to make them stop. Relying on catching fish with mop head flies really is not fly fishing and so I only use them when nothing else works!
ParticipantChris, let’s call them what they really are bobbers! Seriously, if during the drift the fly hits the the bottom the bobber is too high and if it goes to fast it might be too low. There really is no more to know than that other than I hate flyfishing with them, but sometimes you have no other choice! Kenny catches a lot of fish because he is good at using a bobber so I am making it a goal to use them more often and I know along the way I will be catching more fish!
ParticipantI am going to give a compliment to some of the FATC members and hopefully not purposefully tick off some other good fly fishermen of FATC if I leave anybody out as I put my “2 cents worth in. Why is is that when some of the better fishermen of the group like Kenny Klimes, Mike Bisaga, Terry Seaton, Jim Frankee, Bruce Morton, Gabby (what is his real name?), Bruce Morton, Tim Graham, Larry Fararr, and Dave Beerbower often catch fish when we fish as a group when the rest of us are often struggling? The rest of us are often blaming the weather when the better fly fishermen are just adapting and using a different method that what the rest of us our using and blaming it on the weather, not enough fish being released, water too high or too low, etc. Fish are going to eat anytime there is food available and we just need to try and figure out what are they eating! This is like saying after our wives fixes us a great meal and we are stuffed “to he gills” that we do not have room for dessert when they bring out our favorite cake or pie! When that happens I am sure we all grab it before anybody else has a chance! Guys the more that you fish the less you can blaim the weather on your lack of success! I am amazed when I do not fish for a while and I finally get the chance to fish it is like I have forgotten everything that I have had the priviledge of Kenny (and years ago my Dad) trying to teach me! On the flipside I am amazed when I get to fish a lot over a short period of time how much flyfishing just feels natural!
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