Fishing Reprt Roaring River

[timsfly]

They are still digging some in the park, but it is all supposed to be done by wed. They are digging only in zone 2 right now.

Water is clear and dropping a bit everyday, we still have really good flows, the river is usually a lot lower in july than it is right now.

The fish are healthy and fighting hard right now.

With the clearer water, it is very important to use a good 2 or 3 lb line.

I see people everyday with 4 or 6 or sometimes heaiver line that have been fishing for 2 or 3 days and and have onl caught 1 or 2 trout, we put new 2lb line on for them, make sure they are rigged right, and most come back with stories of limits and the ones that got away. light line is very important right now.

Dry fly fishing is really good right now, still doing well on beetles, ants, hoppers, cracklebacks, griffiths gnats, elk hair caddis, blue wing olives, and we are still getting a good trico hatch each morning.

Nymphs to use right now would be a pheasant tail, burlap, sow bug or a scud, brassies, copper john, hares ear, all these in # 16's or #18's.

Zebra midges, are good as droppers, #20's and smaller, and micro eggs also work well now as a dropper or if you are sight fishing.

Glo-ball, san juan worms, thread jigs and grubs are working well also, we fish these under an indiacator most times.

9' leaders are a best right now, unless you are fishing a fly rod that is 6' or shorter, use a 9' leader.

Micro jigs, marabou jigs, and the tinsel jigs are all working well right now, we are doing best on black/yellow, olive, white, brown, and black/olive.

Roostertails are good early and late, the best colors have been black, skunk, frog green, dk. brown, and brown/yellow.

Power eggs are still the way to go if you just want a quick limit, white, hatch brown and orange eggs have been working the best.

If you are using plastic worms, then the cheese yellow, white, flo. orange and the pink have all been working well.

Now if you are going into Zone 3, minnows, nightcrawlers, corn, and powerbait paste is a good choice, these are good producers.

Good luck, see ya on the water.

Tim's Fly Shop

[semoseman]

Is hard to find 2lb line - what do you recommend?

What about something like Seaguar invisix in 4lb- does flurocarbon buy you anything and allow me to use the 4lb invisix I already have? Can you tie on Rio flurocarbon leader onto your line in 6X or 7X, if so what length leader do you recommend?

thanks,

Scott

[timsfly]

I normaly use a 9' leader, longer sometimes when the water is low and clear.

I use 5X (4lb) fluorocarbon for buggers, bigger nymphs, and streamers all the time.

seaguar is great stuff, I use it all the time, I use it for my fly fishing as tippet

material quite often.

I don't like using heaiver 6X for my nymphs, the 4lb is to heavy for most of what

I do here at the park. I use 7X most of the time on stuff #14 and smaller.

[timsfly]

Excuse me, I meant to say I like 6X for most of my nymph fishing.

[semoseman]

Definately for fly fishing I would go with those recommendations. For spinner fishing would 4lb seaguar invisix fluorocarbon work. (Referencing your first post with people using 4lb line and not catching fish - if I were to do some spinner fishing would the invisix work)

Scott

[timsfly]

You can use the 4lb invisix fluorocarbon but you'll do better with 2lb, the 4lb will not let the smaller lures sink naturaly, and will not cast small jigs eaisly.

If all you are using is spinners, crankbaits and spoon type lures you can probably get by with 4lb, but 2lb will work better, so get 2lb if you can, you'll catch more

fish.