10-22-2009, 04:53 AM
I hit The Narrows for a few hours today. It was a beautiful day, and while the leaves are winding down, it was still rather pretty up there. I started out fishing a #10 orange Turk's Tarantula with a #14 dark mayfly nymph that I tied up with some peacock ice dubbing for the thorax. That combo pretty much did the trick for the next few hours. I ended up with 19 bows, 3 browns, 1 cutthroat, and 3 smallies. The cutt absolutely exploded on the Turk's. The largest brown came from a very slow section where I've always caught smallmouth. I tried a small swimbait there for about 10 minutes and missed one bass, but a number of trout took a whack at it. So I grabbed the fly rod and the largest brown of the day came rising up from the nearly still waters and sucked it down. Pretty cool. While I was hoping for a little more bass action, the trout today certainly made up for it. If I could have caught a walleye and a carp I would have had a grand slam. Although I'm not sure the walleye are even up in The Narrows this time of year. Does anybody know if they are, or have they all moved down to slower waters?
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