Antietam, 06/12/26

What a fun educational day I had with father and son, Wayne and John. Wayne has not fly fished in 30 years, John had never seen a fly rod. Well, they had a great time on the water. We fished from 8AM till just after noon. The water is clear and low. It is holding a great temp. of 60-62. Nothing was really hatching. I spent most of the morning with John and taught Wayne some new stuff as well. We fished nymphs off indicators. We got things moving and the plan came together smashingly. They combined for 6 12-14 inch beautiful browns, two smallmouth and a huge 21 inch sucker. So John learned how to fight a hard fighting big fish. They both had a great time and as Wayne said, “ I taught him so much, he hopes to remember most of it.”

The bite is back on. The water temperatures are perfect and our wild browns are feeding and starting to move for the spawn. Don’t miss out for your “Red October” brown trout hunt.