Cassadaga

[John Jarosz]

Dan Scheda & I went shadow casting at the Cass Wed.  Great time with great company.  The young & old in one boat at the same time.  I wonder if anyone's ever called him "old" before?

Dan connected with one toothy but it took & dropped right away & had one other follow the fly right to the boat.  Once it saw the boat it turned & burned.

I had one come up underneath my fly then turn back down.  All that action in about the last hour in the upper lake.  No action for the previous 3 hrs all around.

Hopefully Dan can give a few more details like sizes, etc.  A great time B.S.-ing the whole time.  We'll do it again soon (B.S. that is).

[John Jarosz]

Dan...I know you were going to go out again by yourself after I came in.  How long did you stay & how did you do?  thanks..jj

[Daniel M. Scheda]

I couldn't upload a video of Johns Gurgler Popper (thanks apple).  It makes a really nice sound but apparently I was the only thing on the lake interested in it!  When I got there in the morning and started setting up I realized that I forgot my 10wt fly rod! I almost couldn't believe it.  So I just used a beefy 8wt and it did just fine.  At the end of the day I had three follows and two take flies.  One was hooked and the other just grabbed the end of the fly and took a whole bunch of fibers off the fly!  The fish were all low-mid thirty's.  Great day on the water though!  I am looking forward to our next trip (hopefully next wednesday) and this time I will be returning with a photo of me and my first musky on the fly!

[Scott McKee]

I hope every member ties into muskies, but I am really pulling for all of you fly-guys!

[John Jarosz]

Dan...I'll say your 8wt did just fine!...and I'm hoping that I will be the one to take that pic. I'll bring a camera so we won't have to depend on Apple. 

For me, it was also like a "shakedown" cruise. I have to work on my leader/bite guard set up & I think we narrowed down the lakes to about three potential areas.  I'm also going to bring my 9'-8wt with intermediate line.  Let me know about Wed (or any other day).  I'm ready for round 2!!

[Stephen Glassic]

John, Have you talked to Mike Small yet? I'm sure he would be happy to give you some pointers that might help.

[John Jarosz]

Steve...no, I haven't, and I was thinking the exact thing last night.  I thought that I should look up his contact info that you gave me but it'll take me half a day to figure out where I put it.

Can you repost how I can get in contact with him & I'll give him a buzz?  Thanks..John

[John Jarosz]

What I didn't mention earlier was that Dan & I met up with a musky fly tier & Chautauqua guide Steve Wascher.  He recognized me because he does tying demo's at the Oak Orchard Fly Shop.  I try to sit in the front row when he ties.  It's worth it to get a good seat when he's tying. 

He gives tying lessons & has gone to fly tying symposiums in Somerset, NJ to teach seminars.  When he spins & packs deer hair, he has no equal.

We met up with him & his friend from D.C. in their boat.  His friend had latched onto four muskies & Steve two, but none were boated.

Steve is a wealth of info & a real gentleman's gentleman.  He's as free with the info as anyone I've met & just pours out the information that he knows. I got a lot from his conversation out there.  We had a real, real good chat.  It was one of the highlights of my trip to the Cass.  I wish every fly fisherman could meet this guy.

here's a link to some of his ties:

scroll toward the bottom half of the page

http://www.oakorchardflies.proboards.com/thread/5429/oofs-guest-tye...

...and a tie of his own.  very appropriate for today:

[Stephen Glassic]

John and Dan'

Here is a link to LOU discussion. There is some discussion from this guy about fly fishing on Chautauqua that might interest you.

http://www.lakeontariounited.com/fishing-hunting/topic/45450-new-he...

[John Jarosz]

Steve...very interesting article.  Thanks.  I'm going to print it out & study it some more.  I see a lot of similarities to the article to what Dan & I have been doing.

We went out today to the Cass & I'll post our "Cassadaga report, the Saga Continues" in another post.  Dan was on the H2O at 5:30 a.m., I was on at 7:30 & we quite at 2:00.  Obviously a much longer day for him than for me.