While the cat (Kenny) is away the mice will play, or fish (whatever you like). Bill Byington, Martin Jones and I (Jim Craig) made a great day of it at Montauk on September 12th. While Bill and I have a lot of flexibility in our schedules (read retired), Martin was really glad he finally took a day off of work to get back on the river again. Maybe I should say Martin was REALLY, REALLY glad he took the day off. Read on. Before we hit the water that morning, we ran into Jim Franke and Craig Dull. They were spending a couple days at the park and were just finishing their breakfast at the park restaurant. We left to fish below the cable in the morning while Jim A. and Craig planned to fish in the park. We then joined up for lunch. While Bill and Jim C. were tricking fish in the morning with a black beetle (for Bill) and a green soft hackle (for Jim), Martin was slaying the trout with his newly tie black and yellow hopper–which heretofore shall be known as the “Martinator.” See the attached pic. Martin was able to coax copious neutral trout in to taking his fly. If they didn’t take it when it landed, he gave it a little twitch and fish on! When he gladly shared a couple of his extra Martinators with Bill and me, we had similar success. In the afternoon Bill, Martin and I moved on to Baptist Camp. While the fishing action cooled off a little and the rain moved in, it was still a fun afternoon as the crane fly larvae and other terrestrials seemed to be favored. The day ended with a hardy fellowship dinner at Missouri Hick BBQ.