Guess what we did Sunday night

[Guest flyfishBDS]

Bryce being introduced to the delights of whites/hybrid's on fly

More pics here

Dam Store research trip

Just to whet your appetites

Cheers

Steve

[Bill Butts]

Steve,

Very nice pic of a nice White Bass.

You indicated he also caught some Hybrids, but didn't provide any detail.

So this was below Beaver Dam, if I am understanding you correctly?

I've heard that there has been some very good White Bass action below the Dam, recently, but it is a mystery to me why your reports and the reports from McLellan's have no info related to this opportunity.

Am I missing something?

Please set me straight, if I missed some info you shared, on what's going on or share the reality of the existing opportunity for these great fish.

There are folks that will appreciate your info.

There is no doubt the best of the spring run is yet to come. Let's hope and pray there are some good spring rains to assist the desires of our Temperate Basses to ascend the rivers.

Thanks for any additional info you can help us with.

[Guest flyfishBDS]

Gday Butts, I can't give EVERYTHING away now can I

No actually its been that we have only been nailing them properly since last week's report. The cold weather had the fish shut down until Saturday, no point mentioning it in the report when they weren't even eating minnows _ I kid you not I was speaking to lots of conventional tackle guides.

Lots of differences too between whites here and in the Upper White _ water clarity seeming to prompt them.

The run is seriously on _ lots of fish down stream of the 62 bridge, which is about 5 miles below the dam. Ive only been fishing certain sections but you can find them most of the way to beaver/Holiday Island which is about another 5 miles down but pretty much boat access, Float or walk down

Lots of people been fishing for the whites tight on the shoals, but its reinforcing my view that these fish are way too intent on spawning _ I mean does anyone stop that to eat?

Look in the deeper holes, "staging areas" below the shoals.

Clear water means these fish are pretty spooky in daylight, unlike Twin Bridges, lots more productive on cloudy days and on dusk and after dark. Flies have been smaller too than above the lake, best performers are white woollies, smallier jiggies etc.

Going back out tonight

Now your calling that fish above a white and my two colleagues swore it was a hybrid becasue of the broken stripes _ We were also spotting several way larger fish that weren't walleye and had to be hybrids/stripers on Saturday, haven't been able to relocate them _ yet?

Me Im an Aussie so what do I know _ other than they are a blast on a fly rod.

I'm ready to be educated on that point.

[Brian K. Shaffer]

So if that a male.. its still a nice fish, but if thats a spawned-out female.. could it have tipped 3.5 or more full ? I really dont know how to tell the larger males from females.

Brian

[Guest flyfishBDS]

Whites back ont he shoal below 62 bridge in numbers again

cheers

steve