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ya im pretty sure, or atleast i didnt notice......yd you ask?

arrived at tan vat at around 7am, we had the place to our selves. It was pretty chilly and damp. the water was up and a bit murky but not as bad as i thought it was going to be. Started fishing the first hole there by the parking area. Hooked in to one with in 5 min on a orange sparkle egg but ended up getting off. we headed up stream from there. Fished the next little run on the right walking up stream picked one up out of there on the sparkle egg, first two pictures. Continued fishing that spot for a min after the first one with no other luck. we walked just up stream to the next hole there with the tree down. I was still throughing a orange and pink y2k with a sparkle egg under it. After some time i got one outta the hole on the egg again. Ended up walking a ways up stream wia th no luck. so we headed back down to the car and went to the park. The sun was feeling pretty good around this time, 12:30-1. Ate lunch and head the the top of the flys only area just down stream from where the creek dumps in. Picked up a small little guy on a orange scud there. By around 3 there was a nice caddis and grayish midge hatch. we decided to head to the catch and release. We were happy we did, tthey were killin the dries. buddy was using a tiny emerger of some sort and i was throughing a size 18 lightgray dun, both of us were doing very well. didnt even have to bust my c&r secret fly( some of u could proly guess what that is.) Stopped fishing the c&r around 5 and headed to set up camp. That night wasnt to cold, but woke up in the morning at around 5 to it raining on the tent. ended up getting up around 9 and started fishing the camp site area. hooked in to 2 behind out site (313) but didnt got off quickly. around noon we packed up camp and headed back to tan vat. walked down stream this time walked aways down stream untill we reached the part with the island with the small run on the back side. from the top of the island and down past it about 30 yards is where i had the best luck. i caught a nice bow of the sparkle egg is the fish fast deep hole, walked down stream a smidge and got 2 more 1 bow 1 brown. walked back up to the fast deep hole and tied on a size 6 y2k( might sound odd but worked) it was pretty heavily weighted so it got down to the bottom pretty good in that fast moving deeper water. got 2 more on that. headed back to the park to the c&r before we headed back to st. louis. 2 more there on black zonker.

let us know how the trip went ill be heading down tomorrow hopefully the waters not as bad as everyone is saying it could be

ill be down on sunday hopefully fishing tan vat unless its coffee and cream color, this storm does not sound good for my trip...i hope it doesnt hit has hard as they say

thanks ozark

need to post up a answer

are you only going to be fly fishing for trout? or do you plan using it for multi species. and as ness suggested cabelas has some decent rods for decent prices. my first rod was a cabelas FTplus...i loved it untill breaking to tip being stupid....they have good warranty also...i took mine back and gave me full store cred due to the rod model being discontiuned. as for the backing, line, leader, and tippet. the backing i would say 20lb would be sufficient, for the line get the same weight line as the rod you purchase, the leader knotless 5x-7x i would say but 5x is getting heavy if you are fishing really clear water or picky trout. for tippet you would want to match it with the size of leader or you may have trouble connecting the two. this is the best i can do for ya , iv only been fly fishing for a year and a half now probably so i am sure there are alot of guys on here that have more experiance and might be able to help you more.

ill be fishing tan vat area mostly

any have a opinion on ideal water gage height for wade fishing the upper current?

i did see that boneless brown on the trail last time it looked pretty nutty..ha and as for the el chupacabras there as big as my dog. i hear they like my famous piss'in beans

any fly shop or bass pro or cabelas

any specific color for the eggs?......what about y2k's

headed down with one buddy of mine....we are unfortunately only staying one night but thats better than nothing i guess. we will be at 313 if anyone else is down there at the same time. we plan on doing about 85% of our fishing at tan vat but will be doing some inside the park as well. Have never been down there this time of the year and have heard the egg pattern is what to use. any tips would be great. will be only fly fishing. also i have heard of a place nick named the boulder garden and was wondering where it is located on the current if it is even on the current. thanks guys

yeah thats what i was thinking man.....it killed me to see it like that

buddies and i headed to cardiac at around 8am it was raining here in st. louis but we figured give it a shot. arrived to the cardiac access around 10. on the way we noticed that dry fork was filled with rushing chocolate milk...not a good sign being that we are trying to fish just down stream from the creek. there was one car in the parking area and before we were ready to head down he came back up. informed us that the stream was pretty much blown out and muddy. Having never been there before we decided to go see for our selves. we walked down to see that it was high muddy water and turned back around to head to the car. the walk up showed me exactly why the access is called cardiac hill. after returning to the car we decided to head to the spring and atleast get a few fish in for the day. the park was not to crowded and the water was decent. Lots of deer in the big field all day long. Fishing was pretty slow for us, seen a few guys doing pretty good using bait but thats about it. i managed to bring in 3 one of which was only about 7 inches. I was using a white and pink y2k i had tied. The fish were staying close to the bottom pretty much all day. I remembered i had brought a homemade siftnet and decided to test it out for the first time......i couldnt believe it......stuck it in the water about 6 feet down from a buddy standing in the stream and pulled it up with proly about 100 scuds on it 2 of 3 leeches and some snails. after seen the results a buddy put on a small scud and landed a nice little brownie and a lil fingerling before we headed home. Also Near the end of the day up near the line...i saw a lady walking back and forth staring out in to the water she had no rod or anything just looking.....then next thing i know here comes her husband smacks the water rapidly three times about 4 feet from the bank with his rod and hooks up with a very nice 6-7lb brown i couldnt believe it. after getting it in immeditatllly puts on stringer.....it broke my heart. He acted like it was no big deal didnt say more than a few words. all in all it was nice to be out for the day having a good time I hope to return to cardiac with better results in the near future.

i am planning on hitting up cardiac for a few hours tomorrow with and buddy or two. none of us have been here before and cant wait to try it out. any advice from you guys would be great. we strickly practice catch and release and are going to be fly fishing.......whats working this time of the year down there? ect? thanks guys

how about we all end this bickering that has be going on for sometime now on this post and get back the the subject of Tan Vat and if anyone has fished it recently and how there trip was......sound good to anyone else???

thanks guys

so egg patterns whats hot eh?

buddies and i are trying to get a trip together to head down late sept or oct....plan on doing a good amount of fishing out of the park down there whats usually work well that time of the year on the current?

fly

heading down for 2 nights was wondering whats working down there, this will be my second time ever down there so any info would be great..thanks

i want to try and make some smaller rope flies that i can cast with my 5 weight

what weight rod are u using

anyone?