Roaring River Is Fishing Is Better Than Ever

[timsfly]

The river just keeps getting better every week, the last rains missed us again, and the river is in fine shape, with the water getting clearer, the use of 7X (2lb line) becomes more important, I think it will catch you more fish right now than 3 or 4 lb line (6X or5X) and stay away from the blue or clear blue lines or any other line that looks blue or white on your reel, these spook fish in the clear water that we have right now.

Dry fly fishing has been really good, beetles, caddis, blue wing olives and tricos have all been good.

Ants, hoppers, stimulators, and humpys have all been good in the afternoons.

Nymph fishing is still just as good as it has been, copper johns, pheasant tails, burlaps, micro eggs, and small zebra midges have all been working great, brassies, and woolybuggers have also been very effective, but the woolybugger is still the best fly to use all day long if you only have one fly to fish.

Plastic worms are still tearing the trout up, the pink/white, orange, and the cheese yellow are still very good.

Plastic eggs have been working great as usual, the white, orange, and brown have been working best.

Marabou jigs are great now, with the clearing water we are able to sight fish again, and the micro jigs in white, tan, black/yellow and olive have been working better than ever, if you like regular jigs, then black/yellow, white, brown and tan are the ones to use, 1/32, 1/64, and the 1/100 mini jigs have bee working best.

Roostertails are great early morning flies, the brown, black, and the white have been really good.

Spoons continue to work well, small gold, or silver work very well all day long, some of the more colorful spoons work better when the sun is up, the brown trout spoon was the best producer last week.

Glo-balls, grubs, thread jigs, and small micro jigs were very good in the fly area for the spin fisherman, set these up with a cork and fish them about 3' deep right now, fish them on the far bank, and if the cork even bobbles a bit, set the hook. Good fish are caught this way every day.

Zone 3, powerbait paste in yellow or rainbow. Nightcrawlers and corn are also good producers.

Good luck this week on the river.

Tim's Fly Shop

Tim Homesley

[Murdoc]

Thanks for the great report Tim. You always know how to get everyone pumped up!!!

[Danimal]

Was up there yesterday after honeymooning on the Kings River/Eureka Springs over the weekend. Did pretty well with red zebra midges (gold bead and wire). Dan-o

[Rusty]

  Murdoc said:

Thanks for the great report Tim. You always know how to get everyone pumped up!!!

Yeah, I saw Tim throwing HGH at them the other day. Talk about getting pumped up.