First Timer's Feat: July 12-13, 1999

By Todd G.

It was about seven p.m. on July 12th when Myron set my rod up with an orange egg with a lead weight 6 inches up from the egg and he went down to the river with me and showed me what to do.

It wasn’t ten minutes before I caught my first rainbow trout
that was about 10 inches long. I fly fished with the egg for the rest of the night. I didn't catch anything but I didn’t care.

Myron up graded me and my mother without charge to the Wren cabin from the Fisherman’s Room (my mother was pleased). We woke up in the morning ate a couple of waffles and went to Myron's house so we could get a canoe to get to each riffle.

I fished the first riffle (The Falls) with my mom and didn't catch anything. I fished the next riffle and caught a rainbow trout that was about ten inches long on a black rubber legs. Then I caught a brown trout that was about eighteen inches with the same fly, from the canoe that my mother was steering along the deepest water which was about four feet deep.

Then I caught a sucker on the same riffle as the brown trout. Then I caught another rainbow trout on a prince nymph that was about ten inches. That was the last fish of the trip.

Todd G.
Tulsa OK