White River

TIME: 10:00 AM TO 4:00 PM
WEATHER: PC, Low 70s, windy with south to variable winds
WATER CONDITIONS: 2 units
LOCATIONS FISHED: White River, Jenkins Creek to Rim Shoals
FLIES USED: #14 SSF (Simank's Secret Fly)
ROD USED: 9 ft 5 wt Winston
HATCHES: Caddis, Midges
OTHER: Fished with John and Ed in the river boat. Met them a little late due to a medical appointment. Wind gusted to about 20 mph, making drifting and fishing sometimes difficult. Nevertheless, we caught a lot of fish, though none over 16 inches. Fishing was best immediately upstream of Jenkins Creek, in the riffle at the creek, and just downstream. We did drift through Rim Shoals late in the afternoon, and caught lots of fish in steady succession, despite the wind. We saw a few caddis coming off, but again as the previous day, didn't see any rising fish.

Norfork River

TIME: 9:45 AM TO 11:15 AM
WEATHER: PC, Low-40s warming to upper 50s, windy with east winds
WATER CONDITIONS: 0 units
LOCATIONS FISHED: Norfork River, 2nd Island above Ackerman/Handicap Access
FLIES USED: #20 Ginger Cockleburr, #20 Olive Cockleburr, #20 Kay's Gray, #20 Dunn's Z-Dun
ROD USED: 9 ft 5 wt Winston
HATCHES: Midges
OTHER: Wind direction totally changed from yesterday, coming out of the east today (wind from the east, fishing the least). Fished solo, and started river-left at 2nd island. Some idiot was standing right in the middle of the small riffle, and put the fish down. Tried downstream, but no luck. Moved to river-right at Cook's Island, and again, another idiot was standing right in the middle of the riffle; wish these guys would stay home! Anyway, saw some rises and threw everything in the fly box at them. Finally, put on the last Dunn's Dunn I had, and it was a modification with a zelon tail, thus called a Dunn's Z-Dun. It seemed to do the trick, though I only picked up a couple, and I fished hard for those two. The first idiot left, so I moved back upstream, switched to a Ginger Cockleburr, and caught a rainbow and a brown. It was not a bad day, but I fished hard for all 4 fish.

Norfork River

TIME: 12:45 PM TO 3:15 PM
WEATHER: PC, Low-60s, windy with west winds
WATER CONDITIONS: 0 units
LOCATIONS FISHED: Norfork River, 2nd Island above Ackerman/Handicap Access
FLIES USED: #20 Kay's Gray, #20 Ginger Cockleburr
ROD USED: 9 ft 5 wt Winston
HATCHES: Midges, Blue Winged Olives
OTHER: Fished solo, then with Kay. Caught 8 fish – one cutthroat and 7 rainbows – 3 on Kay's Gray and 5 on the Ginger Cockleburr. Kay hooked up with a San Juan worm.

Ron on the Norfork

TIME: 3:00 PM TO 4:45 PM
WEATHER: PC, Low-40s, windy
WATER CONDITIONS: 0 units
LOCATIONS FISHED: Norfork River, 2nd Island above Ackerman/Handicap Access
FLIES USED: #14 Gray Norfork Scud, #14 T-Worm
ROD USED: 9 ft 5 wt Winston
HATCHES: Midges
OTHER: Fished with Ron and Mellisa; it was Mellisa's first time to successfully fly fish. After a brief casting lesson, and some disscussion about drag-free drifts, she caught a rainbow on the T-worm , and missed a couple of others. Ron caught 3 fish on the gray scud. I fished very briefly, about 15 minutes, and caught 3 fish on the gray scud. Fishing was very difficult, it was windy and cold, and we fished less than an hour and a half.

Norfork River

TIME: 11:00 AM TO 2:30 PM

WEATHER: PC, Low-50s

WATER CONDITIONS: 0 units

LOCATIONS FISHED: Norfork River, 1^st and 2^nd Islands above Ackerman/Handicap Access

FLIES USED: #14 T-Worm, #20 Furnace Cockleburr, #26 Parachute Black Gnat

ROD USED: 9 ft 5 wt Winston

HATCHES: Midges

OTHER: Fished with Wayne. Wayne and I both struggled, by Wayne’s standards, but each of us picked up a dozen or so fish. Fish were moderately rising to midges, and I took about half of mine on the #20 Furnace Cocklebur and the other half on the #26 Parachute Black Gnat. One 12-inch brown jumped completely out of the water to take the fly in mid-air, and another brown took a fly right next to a boulder sitting in an area where I typically would not fish. All in all, it was a really fun day as I always immensely enjoy fishing with Wayne, and we had the water to ourselves.

Norfork River

TIME: 11:00 AM TO 1:00 PM

WEATHER: PC, Low-50s

WATER CONDITIONS: 0 units

LOCATIONS FISHED: 2^nd Island above Ackerman/Handicap Access and 1^st Island below McClelland’s

FLIES USED: #14 Gray Norfork River Scud, #14 T-Worm, #20 Furnace Cockleburr

ROD USED: 9 ft 5 wt Winston

HATCHES: Midges

OTHER: Fished with Mel and Slim. Initially, the Norfork was running 2 units so we headed off to fish Roundhouse on the White. Kay called and said they turned the Norfork off, so we turned around and headed back. Supposedly it was turned off at 8:00 AM, but for some reason, it did not get turned off until 9:00 AM, so we waited, and waited, etc. Finally, we waded in while the water was still high, and the fishing was terribly slow. We then worked our way upstream to the island below McClellan’s. Slim managed to catch a few fish on the way up. We got into slow rising fish at the tip of the island, and managed to fool some pretty nice fish on dry flies. I caught more than a half dozen on the #20 Furnace Cockleburr, and Mel and Slim also caught fish.

Norfork River

TIME: 9:00 AM TO 1:00 PM

WEATHER: PC, Low-50s

WATER CONDITIONS: 0 units

LOCATIONS FISHED: Norfork River, 2^nd Islands above Ackerman/Handicap Access

FLIES USED #14 Gray Norfork River Scud, #14 T-Worm, #20 Furnace Cockleburr

ROD USED: 9 ft 5 wt Winston

HATCHES: Midges

OTHER: Fished with Mel. It was a SLOW bite, and no fish were interested in the scud. I did manage to catch only 4 or 5 fish on the #20 Furnace Cockleburr. Mel also managed to fool a few fish. He fished the previous afternoon and did fairly well on a dry fly.