Saturday, July 6, 2013—Family Fishing, V. 3

DATE:  Saturday, July 6, 2013
TIME:  8:30 AM TO 11:15 PM
WEATHER:  Low 80s, sunny
WATER CONDITIONS:  0 units
LOCATIONS FISHED:  Norfork River, Riffle Above the Island Below Otter Creek
FLIES USED:  #14 Gray Norfork River Scud, #20 black/copper Zebra Midge, #14 Pink Cockleburr
ROD USED:  9’ 3-wt custom built G Loomis
HATCHES:  Midges, a few Sulphurs
OTHER:  I "guided" Karyn and Matt.  Hoping for a repeat of late yesterday afternoon, we waded upstream expecting the fish to be rising like crazy, but instead found several dead fish in the pool below the riffle. (I suspect poachers had been in the area during the evening.)  I tied on a scud and zebra midge dropper combination on both Karyn and Matt’s lines, but hook-ups proved to be evasive, with only a few fish caught.  Switching to a pink cockleburr proved to be no better, and in fact resulted in less hook-ups.  Matt fished the plunge pool above the riffle but didn’t have any success.  It was a slow fishing day.