A quick trip to Montauk State park brought some success for Bill Byington. Here’s his report!
I made the trip down to Montauk on Thursday. I arrived around 8:45 and started at the head of the second long pool. Things started fast with a fly Tim Flagler had just had featured on Midcurent, a parachute Ant tied with the use of UV resin material. I couldn’t get my UV to cure and hold so I used Zap a Gap. The trout seemed to like it but the third trout taken in 15 minutes tore it up so I was back to stage one since I only had tied the one. There appeared to have been a Trico hatch since there were a lot of tiny white flies buzzing around so I tied on a Matt’s Midge in Sz 20. That was a good move and for the next three hours, I caught a good number of fish on that fly, somewhere around 15 or so. After lunch, I went to the top pool and started trying different files to see what would work and wound up using a size 18 Parachute Adams, an ant. a couple of different beetle imitations. I think the Cricket was the best fly in the afternoon accounting for 5. The best fly for the size of trout was a yellow hopper that attracted a lot of attention but only 3 fish were hooked with it but they were the best fish of the day as they were 15 and two16 inchers. It was a really nice day out and overall a very satisfying day on the water.
Bill Byington
I thought I may as well add and update. Fishing had been so good on the Thursday trip I thought a return on Monday could be a good idea. Well, it was a disappointment, to say the least. I saw no Tricos since the temperature had dropped and the flies I tried before, crickets, beetles, were also a no-go. I saw hoppers on the trail on the way back in after lunch but the fish were having none of it. I did catch a few on a parachute housefly I have been playing with and a few more on various other dries but nothing really clicked. I even tied on a San Juan worm for a bit but the fish would charge it and then turn away. I talked to few other fishermen and they all were having a hard day.
Bill