Hi,
My wife and I hit Mossy early this morning and fished for 6 hours. We're new to fly fishing, so feel free to ignore anything written below.
First, the surrouning land is very pretty. It's worth the trip just to fish such an interesting stream. Pretty, slightly stained water flowing through dairy cattle pastures. Lots of muskrat activity, so watch your step! Also plenty of cow piles.
We used 5# rods and an assortment of foam hoppers #4-10, a #8 beadhead green woolly bugger, foam ants #10-12, beetles #10, and a leech. Thanks to RSW for hooking me up with some great flies! We both used 6-8# test mono tippet....probably could have used 3-4X but we hung-up in so much brush along the banks that it might have been a farce, so we didn't bother with it.
Anyway, we went in not expecting to catch a thing, and also planned to lose many flies and be generally frustrated. I bet I hung up in brush 30 times....it's very challenging to fish a stream like this where you can't wade. Plus, currents were challenging as well...at least for us. We *maybe had 2' of good drift on most casts.
Well, we got exactly 3 small, fingerling trout. My first fly rod trout...though none were bigger than 8 inches. That's fine with us, we loved it.
We saw some really nice browns and had one that kept rising to terrestrials, but when I tied on the bugger he apparently figured out what was going on ;). I hate to admit it, but I also tried sight casting to a few little fingerlings and had rises, but many turn-arounds. So my presentation is apparently not so great ;). I'll work on it.
We saw one other guy the entire day and he showed up at about the same time that we did. He was really nice and had a lot of experience fishing Mossy. He said in the 90s there were a lot of morons who almost screwed up the ability of people to fish there. He was using streamers that imitated a small brook trout and said that the stocked fingerlings are mostly eaten by the bigger browns in the creek after a short period of time!
Bring rubber boots if you have them! You can get to better casting spots if you have them. My wife did, but I didn't.
Use a longer rod if you have it! I could see that a 9' or bigger rod would let you reach up over the vegetation that screws up your drift.
Wave and thank a landowner if you can! We were able to wave and say "thank you!" to one on our way back to the bridge parking area.
Great stream -- very, very hard to fish at least to us. We'll probably hit some other trout streams before coming back to this beast ;). Anyway, I'm not a good fly fisherman but I thought that this might help someone who is new and considering Mossy Creek.
Gene
-- http://www.tpfr.org
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