July 02 Fishing Was Pretty Good

[timsfly]

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Started off my day at the park working with a 6 year old boy named Bear. We started by the hatchery, easy pickings for a beginning angler. He hooked a fish and landed it by himself, which I thought was pretty good considering his age, he missed a bunch of fish and he had few others on that didn't quite make it in, his hook set is still a bit slow Heck he is only six. So after 3 hrs he got tired and the family went up to their cabin to eat.

The water looked great, full of fish and they were hungry, I caught several nice fish on a black beetle, I caugh 4 trout on a #18 glo-ball, 9 trout I caught on a copy of the hatchery pellets I tie, it is very effective when the guys are feeding fish in the hatchery or sweeping a pool. Just as I left I put the always effective #20 black zebra midge on, and landed 5 in about 20 casts, and it was straight up noon, those fish can't tell time, everybody tells me they won't bite when the sun is high Oh well it was a nice day on the creek, water is still a bit murky, but you can see maybe 8 feet in the slow water and 3 feet in the faster water,up by the hatchery in places you can see the entire bottom, you know places where there is not much current. 6X fluorocarbon was the ticket for me today, and I used my 5' 3wt fly rod, it was a hoot, see ya on the river.

[flyfishmaster]

A 5' 3wt... Seems a bit small to my standards.

I guess I'm use to handling a much larger rod than that.

Later,

FMM

[Murdoc]

Hey, it's not the size of the rod that counts it's how much fun you have with it!! LOL!!

[timsfly]

A 5' 3wt is a bit small but it fit the type of fishing I was doing, when the water is normal to low, it is all you need at the parks, unless you are cork fishing and roll casting a lot.

I have caught a lot of 5 to 10 pound trout on rods like the 5' 3wt, it handles them just fine, in normal to low water.

I guess it is all I need, it is more of my crane creek rod, it is nice in small areas like crane creek.

[WebFreeman]

What's that like to cast Tim? Is the timing much different w/ that short a rod? Sounds interesting.

[timsfly]

well just like a longer rod, the timing is very important. A short rod like the 5' 3wt is pretty quick, even for a 3wt. I can get a good 45 feet out of most of my little rods, I have a 6' 5wt that I can get 60 feet out of, but you must keep your rod tip up high to keep it out of the grass behind you.