Fished Bennett Today

[timsfly]

Fished Bennett for a few hrs today, lots of fish in the water, not what you'll see in the summer but plenty of fish in the river.

I caught several nice 15-16 inch browns, lots of small rainbows and two rainbows in the 17-18" range.

Caught most of mine on a cream colored san juan worm, and several on the burlap fly, # 16, the san juan was on a #14

scud hook. I left about 2 the river was pretty colored up, only about 3 feet of visability, maybe not that much above the dam.

There was a nice mix of trout in the river, I was glad to see that, because, I had heard it was really bad fishing at bennett this

year, but that is not the case, saw several nice sized trout, I hooked one in the riffle below the hatchery that would have

gone an easy 5lbs, but we parted company very quickly. I had to use 2 # 4 shot on the burlap, but none on the san juan worms

they had a 1/8" tungsten bead on them that took them down quick enough.

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[DoveTail]

Nice looking fish, sounds like some good action with the sunshine.

[dave potts]

Tim,

An encouraging report. One question- what's a burlap fly?

Thanks

Dave

[Bman]

Tim, Thanks for the great report. Whats up with those Browns? Which zone you catch them in?

[ekl-stl]

The last time I was down in January for C&R, there were an unusually high number of browns in the water.. Only saw one "big" fish but lost of 15" fish.. nice difference.

[tippett7]

Did you catch any of the fish by the 2 wingdams just above the dam?

[timsfly]

Caught all the browns below the dam, most in the shallow waters behind the bridge(just down stream of the hatchery)

Bennett like Roaring River receives a few browns a year.

A burlap fly is a fly tied with burlap, from a burlap bag.

Tie it like you would a chennile grub.

[ohmz138]

Good looking fish, glad you got into em.

That burlap fly sounds like and interesting bug...... very natural looking probably. Im going to look into that more. Do you know where I could find a picture of one of those?

Dad- sounds like we need to hit it sometime. 4 day work weeks....hhhmmm

[Bman]

Good looking fish, glad you got into em.

That burlap fly sounds like and interesting bug...... very natural looking probably. Im going to look into that more. Do you know where I could find a picture of one of those?

Dad- sounds like we need to hit it sometime. 4 day work weeks....hhhmmm

Burlap, sounds like one of the local "secret" Bennett flys like "Bootstrap" , or the Army worm.

Matt, sounds good, but then Taney's only an hour further...