Tuesday, May 26, 2009

New Flies for 2009

Eastern Trophies will be reopening the fly catalog on the website soon. Featured will be the fly patterns used to take big fish, really big, 2x tippet type, often toothy fish. Some patterns offered will be Galloup's Sex Dungeon, Butt Monkey's, Zoo Cougars, Blondes, Articulated Monkeys and Articulated Flatheads. These patterns and others will be available in many colors. In addition, there will also be fly patterns for Muskies. Eastern Trophies will also have it's own successful patterns offered on the site like The 6th Man and Flash Fly Clousers. If you have any questions about the flies we will carry or placing an order just send us an email or give us a call.

Friday, May 22, 2009

Ummmmm Murphy.......He's Into My Backing!!!!!!!

So on a recent float, Chris Murphy and I floated the middle section of the North Branch to see what kind of trout we could hook into. Chris had some recent floats and the fishing has been on the slow side up there for the past week. It's always a good time to float, try new patterns, joke and around and to just spend the day on the water with a good friend.

We hooked some trout early on some flash fly clousers and smaller streamers both with floating and sinking lines. But still, we caught nothing on any size. The fishing was slow. Being in the front of the boat, I hit every spot I could in the first few miles of river, but the fishing was slow and the takes that I did have were soft. So we eased into a "go to" run that has always produced fish and Chris had just anchored up the boat when I made my first cast high into the run. Thats when I saw the flash.

By the time Murphy had anchored up as was moving to the back seat in the boat, I was hooked into what I thought was a pig. I saw the fish roll in about 3 feet of water on one of the two 6th Man flies I was fishing. The brown took off down stream hard and within seconds I was into my backing. Yes backing. Yes I have the regular length fly line also. Grizzly, good knot buddy.

At first when the backing to fly line "bump" went through my fingers I thought I had a cross over in my line which would cause huge problems. About 20 yards into my backing I told Chris that we were going to have to chase this one because I couldn't get any line back.

As we pushed down river to get my fly line back the brown began to roll on the surface and that's when I knew he was foul hooked. After a long drawn out fight of about 10 minutes we finally got the brown in the net. It wasn't some huge, goliath brown I had hoped for, but it's still a solid trout on the North Branch.