Fishing Report For Aug 27

[DoveTail]

Arrived around 11am so all the bait fishers had packed out for the day mostly. Plenty of room to find a quite spot. Most people were bait fishing and they would limit out. I would get a lot of lookers but not a lot of hits. Big hoppers actually were getting some hits around 1pm. Caught 3 on hoppers. The first strike was immediate down around the wooden bridge near the river and broke off a 6x tippet. Later went to a red midge (size #16 w/ silver wire and silver bead head) and would get some action enough to keep me entertained.

Tried scuds, streamers, yellow marabou midge, eggs and about everything I had but the big dries and midge were the meal ticket (for that day). Also tried WD-40s in grey, yellow, black and red in size #18 but not takers?

Lots of big fish stacked up near the hatchery / protected area!

[Bman]

D T, Good report ,thanks for sharing.

[DoveTail]

Forgot to mention, I caught a little blue gill on the yellow marabou midge size #20 with copper holographic wrap.

Bman - you're going to have to show me how to fish there!

I did see some pretty big rainbows along the concrete sidewalk on the opposite side from the gravel road. They were hiding well under the aquatic plants (not the moss but the foxtail looking vegetation). The only reason why I saw some was the smaller trout would swim too close to the big ones and they would come out chasing the little ones off, then they would tuck back under for cover. Yes, I tried to get their attention, but they did not like my flies.

[itsthejash]

I also went today and caught a couple of fish. First one was around 11 am and was caught on a blue-green and white rooster tail, the second one was caught a little after noon on a white rooster tail. I did see a guy today fishing with a black 7in power worm, I'm guessing he wasn't having much luck.

[Bman]

Bman - you're going to have to show me how to fish there!

DT Do you use fluorocarbon tippet? if not try it. When fishing subsurface it is better, sinks better and is harder for the fish to see.

Instead of #18 flies, try #20 & #22 scuds and midges/nymphs, try one of those as a dropper just below a dry fly. You get twice the chance, either the dry or the dry is your stike indicator for the midge.

As far as fish chasing each other, that is male pre-spawn behaivior, I have seen 'em going in circles already. The fall spawn is starting at the parks.

If ya wanna have a bunch of fun, wait till 2nd week of Oct, go to Bennett zone 1 with a small egg fly, thats all you will need for bunches of chinass trout!

[DoveTail]

Yes, I always use fluorocarbon, even for the dry flies. It doesn’t pull them under but I can break the surface tension with it. Plus, less gear to pack knowing all my tippet spools are fluorocarbon tippets.

Thanks for the tips. I was doing that putting a dropper under a big hopper. About 1 in 5 hookups would be on the dry.

I’ll have to make some #20s and #22s for the WD-40s. Could have been the timing I was fishing during the day, they’ll shut down for whatever reason, then at different times you can’t keep them off the hook.

I noticed the fish have great colors and the males are doing the dance. Lots of surface splashing going on…you would think it was a huge trout on the surface, instead it’s the little guys playing with each other. The egg patterns are starting to pick up, they always seem to be producers year round, in the fall is the best.

I was using 7x for the WD-20s, had some 6x on originally for the big flies not knowing how hard if any hits the big dries would produce. If the hurricane doesn’t produce much rain mid week as they are predicting, maybe the streams will only be slightly stained and might be able to get away with some 6x. I’ve always been too chicken to use the 8x.

[Bman]

" I’ve always been too chicken to use the 8x"

Get a nice little 3 wt and have some fun with 7x-9x !!! Don't do like I did one fall. Take it out at Taney during the fall Brown Run, stick a 30" Brown and watch him smoke ya!!!