There is a migration each March in
eastern Nebraska. Hundreds of anglers
flock to Two Rivers State Recreation
Area to fish. And for good reason.
Story and photos by Jeff Kurrus
TROUT ON THE
FLY
AT
TWO RIVERS
I
t started with a photograph. While shooting the
trout fishing opener at Two Rivers State Recreation
Area near Yutan last spring, I introduced myself to
Dr. Pete Jessen, a dentist from Omaha, who had just
caught a nice put-and-take rainbow from the lake.
As my camera focused on the fish, my eyes became
directed toward the fly in the fish's mouth. He told me
this fly was a woolly bugger, the same fly that was
written about by Ryan Sparks in our January/February
2017 issue, where Sparks noted: "The woolly bugger
has probably caught more fish species than any other
fly in existence." After remembering my time with
Jessen near the lakeside months before, I was already
convinced this might be true.
I continued to watch Jessen and a legion of other fly
anglers cast from the east side of Lake No. 5, but it
wasn't until I watched Jessen fish his woolly bugger
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