With such a sunny forecast  I invited my father to fish with me this afternoon.  My father taught me to fish and I feel fortunate that we are able to fish together.  Our goal was to enjoy the warmer day, get outside and perhaps find a fish or two.  We went to a local Lake Ontario Tributary where I saw a few browns mid-week.  To my surprise, I couldn’t locate any of the fish scouted several days ago.  Next, we drove to a second creek that previously contained a number of browns and steelhead over the past few weeks.  Again, these fish must have dropped back to the lake and the water was nearly a foot lower.

On our third creek I located some jittery browns.  I fished without weight, trying nymphs and olive, then brown streamers.  Many refusals to my flies.  Switching to 6 lb test and a tiny, realistic egg fly, I was finally able to convince a smaller brown to take my offering.  These were some of the more spooked, less aggressive lake run browns that I have seen.  Let’s hope we get some rain.  My hunch is that there are a bunch of browns and steelhead waiting to push further into our tribs, given a decent water level.  My advice is the fish the larger tribs, as they have more water and less spooked fish.