Savage River
I fished the Savage River on Thursday from about noon until 7 PM. The river was in great shape and flowing between 80 and 100 CFS during the day. The water temp was about 45F when I started. There were some Blue Quills, Baetis vagans, and Quill Gordons hatching, along with some caddis, but very few fish were rising. I started out fishing a streamer and picked up some nice browns during the first couple of hours. There was a pretty good hatch of Baetis vagans in the afternoon, with a large number of mayflies drifting in the foam of a back-eddy near the head of one of the pools. I took a couple of photos of the bugs, after getting a couple of browns on a streamer there. The fish were not interested in the BWO duns at all. Just beyond this pool, I saw a nice brown come up and take a fly off the surface. I eventually hooked and landed him using a Blue Quill Comparadun, size 18. After that, I fished the pocket water with a size 16 mayfly cripple pattern for a good part of the afternoon with great results. Though few fish were actually surface feeding, I was able to drum up some nice browns. And the ones that were feeding on top were very willing to take a dry fly (when presented properly). I was able to get quite a few nice fish and had a really great day on the Savage.

Youghiogheny River
Don and I fished the Yock on Friday. This is one of the most scenic rivers I have ever fished. It was overcast with a cold front moving in, and a thunderstorm eventually hit late in the afternoon. But we got a few hours of some great fishing in. It was a streamer kind of day, and we were able to hook up with lots of rainbows and also a couple of browns. It was a great day on the river, and I really enjoyed fishing with Don and also watching him roll cast 75 feet from bank to bank. I had certainly never seen that before! The Yock is a really nice river to fly fish, with a wide variety of water - all of which holds some very nice trout. The rainbows are energetic leapers and loads of fun to catch.

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