Nice Day For Fishin

[trout fanatic]

Went to Bennett this morning and really had a nice day. Water was still running pretty good (2.70 on the flow guage when I checked this morning) and still pretty muddy. I went up by the falls and fished zone 2 with several new patterns I wanted to test out. Struggled for the first hour with only 1 little stocker and 1 lost fish for my efforts. I then tied on a little tellico style pattern (pheasant tail fibers for the tail and wingcase, yellow-ok light cahill-superfine dubbing for the body, black ultra fine wire for the ribbing but instead of adding a hackle wrap for a beard I tied in a small clump of pheasant tail fibers for a wing (ala emergent style). Caught a total of 13 fish on that one fly in just a little over an hour. It's tail had been chewed plum off but it was still catching fish.

Largest went 17 inches (with two others between 15 and 16) Only two stocker size dinks. Surprised by the number of people fishing (I guess I am not the only one jonesin). Couple of guys appeared to have similar luck to mine but for the most part, most of the anglers were just catching a fish here and there. Hope to go back monday with a new flotilla of flies to check out

[10pointer]

I had a great time down there this weekend, and this morning (sun.) 8-9:30 am was crazy! i stood on the dam and caught 60+ it was absolutely insane. I was throwing a small white mini jig and i hooked up every cast for quite awhile. My buddy said it was like fishing in the hatchery. There was a gentleman also on the dam with us and he was tearin em up just the same. The higher flow made it a little more hairy to walk that dam thats for sure!!! It was really odd that it was that good, but the rest of the park seemed fairly slow compared to saturday.

The derby was a good time, i caught a tag but was surprised i didnt land any others with as many fish as i caught this weekend. Out of 100 tagged fish released, only 19 total were caught and only 2 of those being tagged in sunday which was very odd.

I rarely fish bennet but a good buddy who is president of our chapter lives at bennett and we had a great party weekend with all of the MTFA st.louis chapter guys. Im more of a montauk guy, but bennett really impressed me this time!

[FishinCricket]

Sounds like y'all had a good time, wish I could have been there...