Monday Night Report

[fly2fish]

As I mentioned in the previous report the water level was just above 710 when I drove down and checked at 8:30 pm. Went back at 10:45 to drift fish outlet 2 and could see the water had already started down. Rigged up with a scud, red san juan and a red egg top to bottom with 3 split shots just above the egg. Caught 11 the first hour, 7 on the san juan, 3 on the egg and one on the scud all nice bows, measured the first one at a hair over 16 inches the rest didn't vary by more than an inch either way. However I did hook one that I knew was on the egg when I hit him with the light and he made a short run and for a few seconds all hell broke loose and when I got it back up the first fish was gone and I had foul hooked a smaller one with the san juan. First time that has happened to me. As the water continued to drop I called and the message was ZERO units and the water level 703.5. I watched the 3 rocks just down from the stairs that I use to gauge when I can head down stream. At 1:45 I re-rigged with a white streamer and headed to Big Hole. The gravel that is normally dry still had about a foot of water over it and the fog was just about head high. I reached my favorite spot and fish were jumping all over the place. Had a lot of short strikes in the first 10 casts with only 3 landed. Instead of trimming the tail I changed to a black and purple Hibernator and it was on then. I was hooking up almost every cast, during one stretch I caught 18 on 18 straight casts in less than 15 minutes. Almost all were less than 13 inches and hit within the first 2 strips and pauses. Then I went 2 casts without a hit so I checked my fly to see that it was still on, it was they were just slowing down a bit to about 3 fish every 5 casts but the fish were slightly bigger back up in the 14-16 in. range. Guess they had established their feeding lanes and ran the smaller ones out. Headed back in about about 2:30 after catching over 40 in that 45 minute span. So with the 11 others it made for one of those once in every several months 50 fish night. Well its back home today until next month hope they keep shutting the water down periodically to give everyone a chance to get the kinks out of their fly lines.

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[ulua]

WOW!!! Great to hear some positive news.

[Spinnaker]

Outstanding!

[Bman]

Awesome! It's cool to have one of those, "you could do no wrong times"

Guess I'm gonna have to try the hoot owl shift, never have at Taney. Leonard's been trying to convince me, I hear ya bud.

I've always been up & down with the chickens.

[fly2fish]

Awesome! It's cool to have one of those, "you could do no wrong times"

Guess I'm gonna have to try the hoot owl shift, never have at Taney. Leonard's been trying to convince me, I hear ya bud.

I've always been up & down with the chickens.

I am the one that is usually a day late and sometimes an hour or two late. When I was up for a week in March I hit the water around 10 pm each night and 2 of those nights they cranked the water on at midnight . I left to early Sunday night when the water started down because the night before it only went to 708, when I found out it was completely shut off I almost went back down. Monday night I called while I was standing out in the water to verify it was down to zero. I have only had 4 or 5 nights like that in 50 or 60 nights the last 3 years, one of those was 2 days before knee replacement (with Duane) and the last was in Oct. last year (with Leonard).

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