I love mondays

[Osprey16]

Got out on a local lake after work today for about 2 hours and caught my first ever brook trout. After catching a few on rooster tails, I was feeling confident enough to switch to the fly rod and I caught a few more on olive wooly buggers. Those fish were also my first fish on a fly rod which I picked up for the first time this year. Most fish were between 8-12 inches, but I did get one that was about 20 or so inches that I lost right at my feet. Looked like a large trout of some sort but I'm not very good with freshwater fish identification. It had an orange looking belly if that helps identify it. Still pretty bummed I couldn't land it but all in all a great start to 2014. BTW the lake was one of the few nj lakes that you can fish in the pre season for anyone who was wondering.