Sunday the 20th was the last day of trout season until April 9, so I decided to fly fish Peapack Brook a little. I fished a pool where I once witnessed a friend catch a wild brown among stocked rainbows while using salmon eggs. Fished that pool thoroughly with a beadhead nymph, and while using a strike indicator began to wonder about what I don't know about the fishing.
So after I got home--had caught nothing--I went online and began to read. About nymphing without an indicator, too. What I've learned, and I'll read more yet, will be useful I hope when my wife and I visit our son in California during the middle of April. It will be catch and release only and only on some streams until the last Saturday of the month. We won't fish much. We can't deny Matt's mother. Maybe we'll fish once or twice.
Reading more about nymphing ought to help me around here, too. Anyhow, the most recent success I've had--besides some casting I can congratulate myself on--was on a stream that feeds the Pohatcong, in October 2020. I used no indicator but missed the direct hit of a brookie about seven inches long.
