Fishing Report

[Phil Lilley]

A long time friend, Tom Johnson (Branson) came into the shop looking for bugs to use below the dam. I gotta rag on him alittle- he had an old hand-made fly rod of mine that the tip had broken off and been repaired; old-old fly line and a tippet section all of 24 inches long, 3x. He fished the other day below rebar using a #10 elk hair caddis and amazingly caught a rainbow. He wanted to do better...

So I fixed him up with a Rio 12' tappered leader and tippet and a few flies and we headed to the dam to try it out. It was 5 p.m. so we had all of an hour to fish. We walked into Rocking Chair from the north side- only a couple of waders in sight (no boats ) and midging trout as far as me could see.

First cast for Tom using a #18 nickel-beaded black zebra midge under a palsa indicator scored him a small chub. Then is was 3 or 4 more ranbows before I even got out. We ended up catching 10 or 12 rainbows largest being about 14 inches- very pleasant evening of fishing followed by dinner with the wives at a Tai place on the strip.

Oh we did switch to #22 blood thread midges about half way thru the evening.

[Micheal Kyle]

Phil

sounds like you guys had a blast. It is so much fun to catch midging fish

Michael