Hot Day On The Norfork

[John Berry]

We walked in just before daylight. The fog was so thick that we could only see a few feeet ahead of us. My guys knew what they were doing. We had rigged carefully. One on zebra nymphs and the other on scuds. Both were on fish on the first cast. The fog didn't burn off until ten oclock. By that time, Tom had landed fourty eight. Once the sun hit the water, the fishing slowed, but not by much. We caught them on a variety of flies. We were successful on chamois worms, hot pink worms, scuds, zebras, and micro eggs. When we finished the day at dusk, Tom had eighty nine. Bill didn't count. However, he held his own all day and easily caught a similar number. It is the best day I have had on the Norfork in a long time.

[Greg]

I guess they were not running water John?

thanks,

Greg

[John Berry]

Greg,

They are testing an oxygenization system and the Norfork will be down for a few days.

[Greg]

That sounds cool. I assume an oxygenation system to help with the low DO problem that plagues the Norfork (and the White and Taney) at times?

I had not heard anything about this?

Greg

[Don Allenbaugh]

It certainly was a good day. My friend Steve (72 fish) and myself (100 even, 1 of which was a fat 22" rainbow) fished below the dam and tore them up. I used the dreaded DB to catch about 90 or them and then some mixed scuds etc. There were several others ther and quite a few of them were doing well also. The fish were real fighters, I think they went down below the oxygen release and then can back up to the enterance at Dry Run and attacked anything in the water.

Really surprised at the small number of fishermen at the park. Maybe a total of 15 at most.

[John Berry]

Greg,

It is an experiment devised by some students from U of A to add oxygen at critical times. Like now!

Don,

I can't believe you actually changed flies.

[DoveTail]

Of course it is expensive but sounds like the DO injection was a huge energy boost for the fish. What a time to be there.