Harry’s Big Rainbow
Harry Schoel, from Holland, and a mutual friend of Chuck Furimsky and mine, likes to arrived a week or two early for the International Fly Tying Symposium to spend time with Chuck, perhaps going to a football game at Penn State, but certainly trout fishing, weather permitting. And then, a couple of days before the Symposium, I arrive, and we all fish for stripers and blues, again weather permitting. Last week Chuck and Harry fished on Pennsylvania’s Fishing Creek on a cold, raw day when not much was going on. Chuck managed a couple as did Harry. Harry took a very nice rainbow on an egg fly—always a good bet in the cold times of the fall and winter. That’s a very good thing to keep in mind if you get to fish in the more bleak months of the year. Fish the egg deep, bouncing along the bottom like a dead-drifted nymph. I typically use a translucent red or pink Otter’s egg in 6 or 8mm size, and fish an indicator with it.
Even though it is a cold, raw day, a big fish gets the blood pumping.
Harry had to rub his cheeks briskly to get them thawed out enough to smile–as smile he should..