Monday, June 24, 2013—3 Spell Trouble in River City

DATE:  Monday, June 24, 2013
TIME:  8:00AM TO 1:30 PM

WEATHER:  Low 90s, partly cloudy, windy

WATER CONDITIONS:  1 unit

LOCATIONS FISHED:  Norfork River, Quarry Park Access to Island at Ol’ Charlie’s

FLIES USED:  #14 Weight Fly, #14 cerise San Juan Worm

ROD USED:  Winston 9’ 6-weight BXT

HATCHES:  Midges, sulphur

OTHER:  I fished with Ed and John.  There’s always trouble when the three of us fish together—entanglements of fishing line, leader, and tippet; casting over another’s line; and lots of long distant releases.  One never knows what will happen, but you can be sure it will always be fun times.

We launched at Quarry Park Access, Ed drove to the White River Access at Norfork and parked the trailer, and Kay shuttled Ed back to Quarry Park.

The Resort Hole produced nothing.  The Long Hole, however, produced at least a fish on every drift.  Ed started out like gangbusters, but the action slowed for him, and I only picked up a few on the Weight Fly.  More and more “guide” boats ended up drifted the Long Hole, and it became too crowded for us.  The pool below the Upper Riffle at McClellan’s to just above McClellan’s proved to be a good area, particularly for John as he pulled at least one fish in on every drift.  We moved further down, and the pool below McClellan’s produced nothing.  The wind really picked up just before noon, and made keeping the boat on a good drift line near impossible.  The pool below Mill Dam Eddy fished very poorly, with only a few fish caught.

Based on past experiences fishing the Norfork with generation, today proved to be a very slow day.