Halloween weekend some friends and I traveled to western New York in search of football Brown trout. When we arrived the streams were off color, actually pretty chocolaty in color. The weather was great (50’s) and the leaves were peaking in color, making for beautiful days on the stream.
The larger salmon here stretch the tape at over 40 inches! Mostly I was bouncing split shot rigs off the bottom with egg sacks, crawlers, egg imitators,and small nymphs. I was fishing with steelhead tackle, 10’6″ noodle rod and 6 lb test. Which made landing this salmon quite a task.
Not many brownies were being caught, but boy were there a ton of salmon to keep us entertained. The brown trout that were in the stream were mostly just males. The monster females had yet to show and I will be back to catch them soon!
I did manage to catch two male brownies that were around 25″. And I ended up landing 10 salmon on my stretched out 6 lb test. It was one of those days when being on the Salmon River was all that I could ask for; beautiful weather, great friends to enjoy the outdoors with, and oh yeah! landing these pigs were quite a plus!
