WEATHER: Cloudy, light rain, high 70s
WATER CONDITIONS: 0 Units
LOCATIONS FISHED: Norfork River, Elisabeth Creek to Mill Dam Eddy
ROD USED: 8’ 6” 5 wt JWF Winston
FLIES USED: #14 Norfork River Gray Scud, #14 Black Cockleburr, Yellow Wayne’s Fly
HATCHES: Midges
OTHER: Fished with Wayne. The Pool fished okay, but a bit slow at first with mostly small fish being caught. We fished our way to Mill Dam Eddy, where I caught only a few fish. Working back downstream, I wised up and put on a black cockleburr, began catching fish by casting the “dry” fly quartering downstream, pulling it under, and stripping it back, and the fish were a bit bigger. I caught a really nice brown, which I mistakenly thought was a brookie, and asked Wayne to take a photo at which point he advised that it was a brown. The 17-inch fish was one of the most colorful browns I ever caught, and was a very heavy fish.
Before I caught the nice fish, Wayne began to “smell” browns, and changed flies to one of his yellow designs. He began catching browns immediately, then went on the hunt for a big fish. He caught one brown after another finishing the day after a light rain began with almost 2 dozen fish, though the big browns, i.e. those over 20 inches eluded him on this rain shortened outing.
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