Busy Day, Succesful Day

David Gallipoli and I headed East today. First way went to the stream I fished last weekend, the one where I hooked my first sea run trout. Today was a bit less lucky in that sense. I moved a few trout, but didn't hook any. That being said the stream did not skunk us, despite it's best attempts to do so. The water here is very stained, and what appears to be land may just be floating plant growth. Mud is not hard to find. We both had problems with these at one point or another. But we did get some bluegills, smallmouth bass, and redbreast sunfish.

We also fished the bay and a side pond for carp. We both lost good fish. They were ALL OVER THE PLACE. We are going back there for the carp, and also possibly stripers. On the way home we noticed that the Salmon River was not too crowded, so we stopped to fish dries and both of us had good success. The 3 weight got a good workout from some nice trout on dry flies. Good end to a really good day.... or not...

I hate to waste daylight inside, so out again I went to the local honey hole with the 3 wt. rigged with a little Clouser Minnow and the 8 wt. rigged first with a big Clouser, then with a Pot Belly Popper. First the Clouser Duo got a panfish slam (perch, crappie, bluegill) and an extraneous smallmouth, then the poppers took over and I began catching some nice largemouth bass. Cast, pop, pop, pause... BOOM!