Report 5/2

[Paola Cat]

Chased the storms on the way from Paola to BSSP this morning. It looked horrible out in front of me. Anyway, the fishing was pretty good. It wasn't fast and furious but at times was pretty consistent. White G-bugs, white mini eggs, and white thread jigs were the the best. Fished Zone 1 mostly in the spring and gauge house area. There were a couple of hatches in the first 1.5 hours this morning. White midges and little black tent wing caddis. Caught 4-5 on dries and missed just as many. Caught fish on a #22 cream midge, #18 white wulff, and #18 black caddis ..... but nothing consistent. I think I need RC's black caddis pattern to match the hatch. Also caught a few today stripping a #12 olive crackleback. Looks like things are picking up. The water was lower, clearer, and slower than last Friday. PC

[flyfishmaster]

Good info PaolaCat. I't is about time there is some top water action. I got to make it doen there one of these days.

[brittsnbirds]

PC-

Your running the wheels off of that little truck! Glad to hear that the stream is clearing up. Did you see Weavers topwater report? Still hoping an attempt for 5/23 - 5/25.

Pat

[Paola Cat]

Pat .... An attempt on 5/23 sounds good. I'm headed to India for work for the next couple of weeks .... and I'll be ready to get back out by then. The hatches I witnessed on Friday were substantial. This wasn't midge sipping .... the fish were coming almost all the way out of the water. There were fish on the surface everywhere in the gauge house area for at least 1.5+ hours. The rises came with substantial boils when you got one. Stupid me, I stuck to floating high dries and did pick up a few fish but it was inconsistent for me. Right now, I'm thinking I should have tried emergers. I'm betting the fish were chasing emergers to the surface and weren't necessarily keyed in on the winged adults. I did catch a few on cracklebacks later on ... that's a good sign. Everything else was deep. Caught a lot of fish but I'm looking forward to not using the strike indicator and the split shot. Mike

[Paola Cat]

Another observation ..... there were no fish visible in the top of the water column. It appeared that the fish were coming from mid column or deeper. That's why I suspect emergers. I'm thinking that I completely missed the active pattern. Next time I'll match the winged adult and use an emerger or pupa/midge dropper. What do you guys think? PC

[brittsnbirds]

Duuuuude-

Your getting way to technical for me!!

I've got that little thread, pre-emerger that I showed you and RC on a 18 or 20 scud hook. Dead drift then swing into them, wooooooo, I'm getting excited. Wonder what color the pre-emergers were?

BTW the boss came by and wants to go down on the 16th. He and I have to work after graduation that is the 15th. Not too happy about staying up all night on 15th to 16th then driving down that morning without any sleep. Plus I just realized that the next weekend is a 3 day. I can not get down there until later on the 23rd anyway. Earliest would be around 3, latest 6.

Pat

[rcguy]

OK, now I'm excited! Fishing sounds like it's getting more better. I'm going to try for the 23rd or 30th. Hopefully it will not flood down there again this year.