Tom just sent an email out about heading up to HBP this evening and requested additional fishing reports…Here’s mine from last weekend. I fished Friday & Saturday, July 22nd & 23rd. The activity picked up nicely both days in the evening on the lake. I fished all dry’s both evenings and landed quite a few…15+ fish on Friday and 10+ fish on Saturday with 6:30 to 7:30PM being the most productive hour. I used Parachute Adams, Olive Elk Hair Caddis, Red Humpy, Royal Wolfe, BWO…all worked well. The fish would go after my fly within the first few casts of putting it on and I would cast into the heavy foam. Once I landed the fish and continued they would be on to me, so I changed the fly. Once I put on a new fly they went after it. I’ve always had good luck when I change fly’s often. I landed a few 17″+ rainbow’s…real niiice!!! I had some good activity in the section of the river just below the lake as well. The river flows out of the lake then bends left into slower deeper water. We cleared this section out about 2 years ago so there are no branches to get snagged underneath the water when you’re stripping back in. I rigged up a Prince Nymph bead-head with a Hairs Ear trailer with an indicator at about 10 ft up. I parked myself in waste deep water about 25 yards down from the bend and worked the slow moving water. As I worked the drift, I had a couple of nice hits and finally landed a nice 16 inch fat bow. It was a great time at the club and I met a number of new members as well!!!
Fish on! BS
I’ve had the opportunity to fish the lower stretches of the Middle Fork (Mammoth Bar, Driver’s Flat and the Confluence) during the week for the last month or so. Up until this past week that is. So, I’ve had a pretty good idea of what’s been hatching, and subsequently, what to bring to the club to use on the weekend. Four weeks ago it was PMDs. But the fish would only take emergers or the occasional dry of various styles. Starting three weeks ago the fish became very selective and would only either take a PMD emerger or PMD Thorax. Two weeks ago it was only PMD emerger or PMD Hairwing Dun. This past weekend, however, I was fishing without the benefit of the mid-week recon, and was surprised to find almost nothing hatching except size 20-22 light-colored BWOs. The fish would take nothing but duns. I had one size 20 or smaller PT nymph, but that got nothing, though it should have been a decent facsimile of a BWO nymph. I also had one small size 18 PMD cripple, which caught a few and saved the day — until I heard a rise just feet from me, looked away mid-cast and stuck the fly it into a tree. Argh!
Cosmo
Why am I sitting in front of my computer instead of down at HBP catching fish like you guys?
=)
#soon,
//Dave