TIME: 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM
WEATHER: Partly cloudy, low 90s,
WATER CONDITIONS: 0 Units, fog
LOCATIONS FISHED: Norfork River, below Island below McClellan’s to near McClellan’s Dock
ROD USED: 8’6” 5 wt JWF Winston
FLIES USED: Brown Wayne’s Fly, #14 Norfork River Tan Scud, #16 Red Zebra Midge, #18 Red Copper John, #18 Norfork River Olive Brown Scud
HATCHES: Midges
OTHER: Fished with Wayne. We quickly fished Mill Dam Eddy in the fog, where I caught 4 fish on the red zebra midge. Wading upstream, we each caught a couple of fish near the top of the island. For the first time in a long time, I did not catch a fish in the riffle above the island, though it usually produces up to a dozen or more fish. We waded upstream as far as water depths would allow, where Wayne caught several fish; I only caught one. As I waded back downstream, I changed set-ups, and began getting takes, missing at least half the fish. A 17-inch brown took the fly just upstream of the walnut tree, and a really large fish hooked up only momentarily before breaking off. Further downstream, the plunge pool produced a few fish. We waded downstream all the way to just above the second island above Ackerman/Handicap Access, but the fishing was very slow. Each of us took just over a dozen fish today. Fishing was tough for both of us, and we worked for every hook-up.
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