Wednesday, August 18, 2010

A Different Starting Time and Place

TIME: 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM

WEATHER:  Partly cloudy, low 90s,

WATER CONDITIONS:  0 Units, fog

LOCATIONS FISHED:  Norfork River, Near McClellan’s Dock to Mill Dam Eddy

ROD USED:  8’6” 5 wt JWF Winston

FLIES USED:  Brown Wayne’s Fly, Cream/Copper Midge

HATCHES:  Midges

OTHER:  Today, we changed our routine a bit, fishing upstream exclusively.  Fishing pressure above the access has been so intense that the fish will hardly bite and are leader shy, and it’s terribly crowded.  Wayne and I tried a couple of casts at the riffle below the island, with only a couple of fish.  The riffle above the island fished good today, similar to yesterday. The narrows downstream of McClellan’s also fished well with quite a few fish about 16 inches being caught.  Wayne caught a bunch of fish using a new pattern he recently developed.  For me, Wayne’s brown fly worked well in places and the copper-ribbed cream midge worked well in others.  As with yesterday, I managed maybe a dozen and a half fish with one large rainbow, about 17 inches.

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