Jim Stastny
05-31-2005, 3:21 PM
Last week I attended a minister's conference. Each year it is held at a located on the banks of the Yellow Breeches Creek in PA. Due to this fact I and several of my colleagues bring along our fly-fishing gear. We spend our free time down on the water whipping it to a frothy foam.
On Wednesday, during our 3 1/2 hour lunch we fished the “run”, a short, narrow, shallow, section filled with trout you can see, trout so accustomed to fishermen they hardly spook. I dedicated my self to helping a neophyte fly-fisherman catch a trout. Within the first half-hour he caught a nice 14” brookie. At that point I decided to start doing a little angling myself. Using the short-line nymphing technique and a woolly-bugger I caught a couple of 10” rainbows. THEN IT HAPPENED, something grabbed my fly, it would not let go, in trying to land this leviathan my rod actually bent completely in half. When the battle ended I released a 17” brookie with a big, hooked jaw, and a girth as big as my calf. He easily weighed 3 pounds. :D
I gently released him back into the water and made sure he could swim away (this was all catch and release water). Can't wait to return next year and see if he grew any. ;)
On Wednesday, during our 3 1/2 hour lunch we fished the “run”, a short, narrow, shallow, section filled with trout you can see, trout so accustomed to fishermen they hardly spook. I dedicated my self to helping a neophyte fly-fisherman catch a trout. Within the first half-hour he caught a nice 14” brookie. At that point I decided to start doing a little angling myself. Using the short-line nymphing technique and a woolly-bugger I caught a couple of 10” rainbows. THEN IT HAPPENED, something grabbed my fly, it would not let go, in trying to land this leviathan my rod actually bent completely in half. When the battle ended I released a 17” brookie with a big, hooked jaw, and a girth as big as my calf. He easily weighed 3 pounds. :D
I gently released him back into the water and made sure he could swim away (this was all catch and release water). Can't wait to return next year and see if he grew any. ;)