![]() ![]() The idea is to let the fish fight the responsiveness of the rod. My dad was in disbelief and started repeatedly saying “Don’t horse him!”, which simply means don’t put too much pressure on the fish and your line or rod. My little ultralight spinning rod was doubled over. I was amazed, but not to the point that I did not know what to do next, which was to lift my rod tip to set the hook. I watched with amazement as that trout sipped in my fly as it drifted right over his feeding window. On my third cast, I put that fly exactly where it needed to be to drift perfectly over that rising trout. My next cast was still a little short, but better. Mind you, I had never done this before in my life, even with a fly rod. I tied it on and took this old fly reel, loaded with a silk fly line that had not been used in many years, and made a cast that was well short of my target. ![]() It was almost the same color and size of the hatch. Amazingly, one of my few flies looked like the mayflies that were hatching. By today’s standards, it was in no way an appropriate setup, but it worked for me, as I did not own a fly rod. So I got it out, took the spinning reel off my spinning rod, and I put on the fly reel. Unbeknownst to my father, I had put an old fly reel of his (a Pflueger Sal-Trout) in the back of my trout vest. I cast my worm in such a way as to have it drift right over him. It wasn’t long before I noticed a trout rising under the alder bushes on the left shoreline. So my father started fishing, and as usual (for that time), we started with worms on ultralight spinning rods. I put on my hip boots and waded to that island. ![]() The biggest of these islands was at midstream. You just needed hip boots to access them. The pool was unique because at the head of the pool there were little islands, if you will, that broke up the flow and proved a perfect spot to cast from. When I was 13 years old, I caught my first trout on the fly rod in Nashoba Brook in a pool between Route 27 and the railroad tracks that parallel them. ![]()
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