Fishing Report

[Phil Lilley]

Need I say... this was an unusual day in the midwest. The temp neared 90 degrees bringing out the shorts and sandles.

But first a word about the previous few days. John Johnson, a very good friend from Kingfisher, OK brought a group of great guys over for a 3 day fishing trip, an annual trip for them. They boat- don't wade- and most like to fly fish. They fished primarily above Fall Creek and use either scuds or jigs and occassionaliy a zebra midge. John told me today they caught and released hundreds of trout- by far the best trip of all time. They just bit all the time. John caught an 18 inch brown on the last morning of the trip Tuesday that was fat-fat and beautiful. Caught it on a olive micro jig. Good for you guys, John.

Now for our short trip this afternoon. Megan called me as Bill Babler and I were driving back from KC. We were asked to speak at the Missouri Trout Fisherman's monthly meeting last night, which was a real treat for us. Had 62 in attendance- food, fellowship and the people were great. Anyhow- Megan wanted to go fishing... how can a proud dad say no!?

So we headed out by boat about 4 pm up past Fall Creek almost to Lookout. I threw an anchor out because the wind was alittle tough out of the south- we were on the shallow side of middle of the lake- 2-3 feet of water. I tied on a black #14 zebra onto Meg's fly rod and I did the same to mine, setting the palsa indicator at 16 inches deep. There were midges all over the place and the trout were very active on the surface. For the next 90 minutes is was non stop action, interrupted only by our conversation and taking fish off our barbless hooks. The largest were a couple of 16 inch rainbows- most were under 12 inches. No browns.

[Guest flyfishBDS]

Nice outing Phil,

I called in Monday after a sensational Monday monring's fishing, even with the wind.

Absolutely hammered fish on the Wapsi Razorfoam Midge fished dry.

Best was in the 16" range but chased two 20s and pulled the fly out of the mouth of one.

For a while was doing better than my mate Bryce who was fishing subsurface. Pretty incredible in the conditions. We had a blast the rest of the day catching fish on Bryce's TDM (That Dam Midge) a zebra midge variant just works, gray with silver wire/ bead and gray blue wire was our best.

Sorry I missed you, but yarned with your wife (I think) for a while.

Its fishing well huh?

Cheers

Steve

[Phil Lilley]

Yes- Marsha said I just missed you as I came back from town. I'll have to drop your place next time.