Maybe it’s on again for some, but yesterday (Wednesday, Sept. 18) it was off — way off — for me. Perhaps it was the sudden cold snap or the fact that I only fished Warren Glen, but in two hours there I had zip — not even a bump, and every pool I tried appeared devoid of fish. Tried Squirmy Wormies, Mops, bead-head Prince nymphs, all usually dependable. Did we really stock Warren Glen Aug. 30, or did we exhaust our supply of stockers in the Asbury stretch and call it a day? Two days earlier I fished Asbury and got into three fish in the Beatty pools — didn’t fish the Farmhouse pools because Rowlie, Mike L., and John M. were cleaning up the area for the Saturday vets’ outing. Frustrated, I headed down to Riegelsville, crossed the Big D, then drove a couple of miles south and parked my car across from Lynn Island, a productive spot I last fished six years ago. Got a couple of decent smallmouths of 13 inches or so (keepers, if barely, although I released them).
Jim Merritt
