Mssp - 1/8/08 Fishing Report

[flyfishmaster]

Well this has been my first time I have been to MSSP in 12 month. I decided to go just last night.

Anyway, I got down there at 7:30 and rigged up and was fishing at 8. The water is a cloudy green and visability varied from 1 to 3 feet. Like normal during the winter months, a lot of fish like to suspend about 1 to 2 feet below the surface. So if you are a softhackle or like to strip flies this is a great place for you to practice. Stripping is not my cup of tea (unless I got a dollar in my teeth ), but I did manage to land 5 using using that technic.

As for nymph fishing, the day started out slow but once I found the right combination of flies, depth and weight, It was game ON! I was able to land over 40 fish and had just as many LDRs to boot. This is the biggest number of fish for me using a flyrod at MSSP. But I do have to say this was the best Quality fish I have ever caught there. For the fish I caught, one was a 20" bow, a 24" bow and a 22" brown. The one LDR I wanted back was another brown. I fought it for 10 minutes got it to the net, but my net was too small and I miss handled it. The huge brown made one more run and then got me wrapped up in a moss pile then got broke the line. I was cursing myself out at that point.

The weather was great and the morning crowd was very small, by business started to pick up after noon. The only spot that has multiple fishermen was up around the island area. And there were at time 3 people at the bathroom hole.

The flies I used today in no particular order were (I will let you guess which double rig combination below helped me hook 90% of my fish today):

• Green-butt soft hackle
  
  
• scud
  
  
• "sloppy balls"
  
  
• RS2
  
  
• Primrose and Perle
  
  
• Zebra Midge
  
  
• Youn Special
  
  
• Mercury Pheasant tail
  
  
• Buckskin
  
  
• Y2K
  
  
• San Juan worm
  
  
• fresh water shimp
  
  
• plus a few other that I can't remember
  
  

I hope everyone is able to get and give this place a shot during C&R.

Later,

FFM

[duckydoty]

Great report. Sounds like you had an excellent day of fishing.

[Bman]

FFM, Glad ya had a great day, seems you had it coming.

[ozark trout fisher]

FFM, Glad ya had a great day, seems you had it coming.

Wow. Forty fish, several over twenty inches. That is a a great day indeed. If I catch a few rainbows at Maramec Springs, and anything over 14" I am very happy. You must have figured them out. Sorry about losing the big brown trout. I have heard browns are getting pretty rare in the spring branch these days, so good job hooking one, a trophy too.

[flyfishmaster]

OTF,

The day was out of the ordinary for me. I have been fishing MSSP for 30 years, but I have only fishing with a fly rod for the past 10 years. Prior to yesterday, in all those years of fishing MSSP I have only landed 4 fish 20" or more. So to me when I hooked more than one big fish in a day, I was very happy.

Later,

FFM

[trizkid]

i went on the 9th and didnt have near as good of a day as you...the weather was great ....what ended up being the combo?

[laker67]

OTF,

The day was out of the ordinary for me. I have been fishing MSSP for 30 years, but I have only fishing with a fly rod for the past 10 years. Prior to yesterday, in all those years of fishing MSSP I have only landed 4 fish 20" or more. So to me when I hooked more than one big fish in a day, I was very happy.

Later,

FFM

Sounds like a great day of fishing to me!! Way to go!!