Reel Adventures of Fly Fishing
The latest version of online fly fishing magazine A Tight Loop is here. Dedicated to fly fishing in the midwest, this issue is over 100 pages of travels, pictures, stories and product reviews. Check out some of the HD fly tying, casting, and adventure films embedded in the magazine. Enjoy!
No posts on fishing today. Instead we’re spending time remembering 9/11 and how lucky I was to be working from home that day and not at our offices just a few blocks from the World Trade Center.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families that lost loved ones in New York, DC, or Pennsylvania.
Here are some pics of local flags that I passed on the way back from my last fishing trip. Enjoy!
The latest Ten & Two online fly fishing lifestyle magazine is here. At 223 pages, it is filled with great photographs, adventures, artwork and a recipe for stone crab cakes with wasabi sauce.
This issue includes stories from the Seychelles Islands, tarpon fishing in Florida, and Sanibel Island. Enjoy!
Had the opportunity to fish the Ken Lockwood Gorge Wildlife Management Area for the first time this morning. The path for the KLG runs parallel to the Raritan River. I had heard good things about the fishing as well as the scenery. Neither were disappointing.
We arrived around 10 am to find a healthy flow in the range of 250 cfs, with the water still cloudy from Irene’s runoff and higher than normal volume. Plenty of fast runs and pocket water. The currents were challenging when wading above our knees.
Given the water conditions, streamers and nymphs seemed to be our best bets. Early on my friend Fred scored a couple of browns using streamers.
As we worked our way upstream, I lost a few streamers to rocks and submerged branches, while Fred continued to pick up fish.
Finally I made a short cast upstream with a prince nymph to a small pocket beside a boulder. It produced a small rainbow, but broke off before I could get it to the net.
About ten yards up I spotted a nice run behind a large rock formation. It looked like it might hold fish. Slowly I waded upstream until I was across from it.
I started casting nymphs with no success. Then I switched over to one of the last remaining choices in my decimated streamer box. It was a green wooly bugger with a brown tail. A few casts later and I had this nice brown on the line.
It wasn’t easy bringing it to the net. The currents were strong, which only aided the brown’s efforts to escape. It tore off line a couple of times before I was able to reel it into the net.
The scenery was enjoyable as well. At times it felt like I was in a mountain stream. The gorge was lush and green, and I’m guessing the fall colors are pretty spectacular as well. Although we saw few anglers, runners, hikers and dog walkers were always present.
A word of advice – the trail bed is severely washed out. There are exposed drainage pipes and several bathtub-sized pot holes. If you decide to visit, be careful where you are walking.
This was my first trip to KLG but certainly not the last. Enjoy!
Hit the local trout stream last evening, hoping that the recent drop in temps from the 80’s to the 70’s would be enough to encourage better trout fishing. What I found instead were two large pockets of panfish that were hungry for the nymph that I was throwing.
I’d like to say that these are bluegill, but the long ears on the gills, red eyes and bright colors make me think they’re a relative, but not a bluegill.
What are these?
Enjoy!
