DATE: Thursday, March 9, 2006
TIME: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
WEATHER: Mid-50s, overcast
WATER CONDITIONS: 0 units, extremely turbid
LOCATIONS FISHED: Norfork River, above 2nd island above Ackerman/Handicap Access
HATCH: None
ROD USED: Winston 10’ 4-weight WT
FLIES USED: #6 shad imitation (gray body, palmered grizzly hackle, fluorescent orange tail—it was the biggest, ugliest fly I had)
OTHER: I fished solo. It had been raining practically all week, and runoff combined with lack of erosion control at ongoing development at Overbrook Estates near dam "flooded" the river with sediment. It was so turbid that one could only see about one inch under the surface of the water. Regardless, I began by dead-drifting a fly in the riffle—nothing. I had heard that some browns had staged in the pool above the riffle, so I began casting the big fly quartering upstream and stripping back. I thought I had hung up, but then felt some movement. Making a long story short, I caught a 22-inch female brown. I made a few more casts and caught a 6-inch brown. I was so disgusted with water conditions that I quit for the day.
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