Yough Float

Love this river!

  

David and I hit the Yough for our first 'full' float of the year on the middle Yough. I wanted to do most of the oar work and get another run with the hard boat under my belt, so we took the RO.  We saw there was a chance of rain, but decided the risk was worth the potential reward of catching an epic Hendrickson hatch that neither of us have ever seen on the Yough.  Well, we gambled and lost.  haha.  It rained all damn day and then the wind started.  Felt like the West Branch all over.  My rain jacket apparently didnt work too well either.  Soaked and cold, but rowing and fishing and having fun. 


 








David started it out good with a couple fish on a new streamer he tied up the night before including a palomino that proceeded 'lay' eggs all over the boat after this pic was snapped. Sweet. 










We tried nymphing, but apparently didnt bring our A-game cause we couldnt move a fish.  We chalked it up to a slow nymph bite, which sounded great in theory until later that day we talked to anther boat who was cleaning house on nymphs.  damnit.  The good news was the streamer bite was great for us so we rolled with it all day.  The fish were nailing the streamer, at times taking 3-4 strikes before connecting on the surface and some right next to the boat.  I was rowing and having just as much fun watching.  It was nuts.  And they were all rainbows with the odd goldie and an even more rare 10" brook trout that ate that streamer!  But on a cloudy overcast, miserable day, we never did catch a brownie.  So weird. 





 






















Anyways, I felt much better behind the oars on this run, but it helped having those extra few hundred CFS.  We saw a few BWOs, caddis and even a couple Hendricksons, but the rain downed the hatches for sure.  No worries...the Yough is just heating up and the fish are looking fat and healthy.

     

Steelhead???....Nope just a Yough fatty that ate some meat