troutin in the seacoast

[cold waters]

So after my trip to NY, i have a renewed interest in trouting... well looking around it would seem that the isinglass, cocheco and lamprey are still open for trout... it would also seem that some guys are doing really well out there.

my experience trout fishing was 90% as a kid. real young i was bait fishing, then i moved onto spoons and bucktails on a spinner set up... then it seemed i got real advanced and started tossing ant patterns and unamed piece o sh$t dry flys at brookies up in the pemi wilderness. so non of this was very technical or difficult.

well now i want to break out the old 4 wt and get after it... does anyone have a recomended flies? sizes? rigging techniques??

in NY i was a "bottom bouncer" this is the technique that the people i went with practice.. i tell ya it isnt much for fly fishing... it is a fly but the set up went like this... 10' 7 wt fly rod with a shoot line to a 20# main line, 15# shock to a tiny three way swivel. a couple of pea sized split shots on a short dropper (for slow water which i liked fishing, up to 1.5 oz in fast which i tried to stay away from) then a 4' leader of 4-8# flouro to an assortment of flies (#16 cooper john to #4 woolly bugers or #6-10 eggs) not very sporty or atleast i dont feel like it should be called fly fishing

i am not sure if this would be effective? or should i try some sort of indicator fishing? or stripping streamers?? i just dont really know but i would love to learn a bit more now that i have some quality wadding gear and it is a long time before the water gets hard enough to fish thru.

thanks in advance

[marcus220]

ed,i'm not real familliar with sea-run brook/brown trout but a friend used to fish the ogunquit river and he used a grass shirmp pattern fly and several nymghs with 4-6lb.leader with sinking fly line....

[cold waters]

thanks Marc,

i have wasted some time with searuns... that i am not fired up on (yet) those things are way to spooky for this trout novice.... i am shootin for sweetwaters... rainbows, browns

thanks

[marcus220]

i have to admit,i too,am not much of a purist when it comes to fly fishing.my extent is trolling streamers,lures,bait in the spring for salmon,lake trout.but i do use a fly rod...

[pedro062261m]

there is a place in durham the driswall dam trout unlimited stocks it as well as f&g right now its open to catch an release only fly fisherman love it there plenty of bows an bass after the 4th week in april its open to anyone to fish but now car only if i was gonna fly fish ide do it there its located of bennett rd on 108 going from durham to newmarket that place reminds me of plaski salmon river to bad it dont have the steelys like it

[cold waters]

I know exactly where you are talking about... actually floated the entire thing from the damn to the falls but i have never fished it!!! I have heard good things about it and will fish it in another month or so.. for now i seem to be out of the water until things warm up a whisker