Wednesday, March 29, 2006

DATE: Wednesday, March 29, 2006

TIME: 12:30 PM to 4:30 PM

WEATHER: Low 60s, mostly cloudy, wind 5-15 mph

WATER CONDITIONS: 0 Units (no generation prior 5 days)

LOCATIONS FISHED: White River, Rim Shoals

HATCH: Some midges, what I believe was a Light Cahill or something similar, 3 sizes of caddis flies (one was small, #18, gray with gray mottled wings; another was larger, #14, olive with near white wings; and the third was #16 tan). The hatch was not as prolific as March 28.

ROD USED: Winston 8’ 9” 5-weight LT (broke the Winston 8’ 6” 5-weight WT Joan Wulff Favorite this morning)

FLIES USED: #16 bead head flashback pheasant tail, #18 olive elk hair caddis

OTHER: Dick and I met Ed on the water; Wayne was there also. It was Dick's first time to "dry fly" fish, and he did very well. We both fished the riffle at the #2 "trailhead." There was not as much rising activity as March 28, but caddis flies were still coming off. In terms of catching, it was an even better day than March 28 for me. Again, none of the fish were large, but several were in the 16-inch class, and were surprisingly HEAVY fish.