It was a busy Saturday and I wanted to get outside.  There are fresh salmon in the lower portion of Irondequoit Creek  and it was tempting to mess with them.

Instead, I opted to stay close to home and fished a middle stretch of Irondequoit Creek.  I liked the drizzly conditions and hoped to move browns on streamers.  Irondequoit Creek was low, clear and presented no anglers for the 1 mile stretch of water that I fished.  I tied on an olive zonker (size #4) and cast to a log.  Within my first two casts, smaller browns were charging the streamer.  Despite the rain, it was fun to tempt a trout or two in every decent stretch of water.  Every hole w/ depth produced a flash, slash at the fly, miss, hook up, etc.  My best brown was 14″, but the majority were 6″” to 9″ agressive, well colored fish.  Some were so small that they couldn’t take the long shanked fly, or there wasn’t enough mass to keep the trout hooked.  I lost far more than I landed.  The olive zonker outfished a chartreuse clouser, a golden brown wooly bugger, a dark brown wooly bugger, a black wooly bugger and a white zonker.  Despite my success with an olive zonker, I have yet to determine one, “go to” streamer for Irondequoit day in and day out!  Nor did I see any larger browns or signs of salmon.  That said, it sure was a treat to mess around with streamers and to watch fish pounce on the fly on one of our local streams.