Report Sat 6/27

[Aaron Mills]

Brian, sorry we didn't make it back to the shop yesterday teh fishing was so good we stayed out a little later than planned.

We fished above Greer from 8 to 12 or so. The regular stuff wasn't working as well as usual. Black stones and crawdad patterns, princes etc. The water from the upper river was a little stained. So, we started fishing flies with some movement and bright colors. The fish were eager to feed, but we had to get their attention a little bit. Olive and white buggers dropped behind a bright colored egg really worked well. Yes, I know, very technical fishing we did yesterday. The fish hit the eggs DEEP on dead drifts whether it was drifting the pools or wading/anchoring at the tailouts. If they didn't hit the egg on the drift swinging the bugggers into the eddies and twitchiing them a little bit did the trick. Pretty much, we picked up fish everywhere just outside the main current seam. All the fish were in 5+ feet of water most were a lot deeper than that. Most of the fish were 14-16 inches, but i did land one 19+ that weighed 4.25 pounds. It was a fatty. I was happy to see they were all in good condition given it was so hot. none of the fishe we released seemed to be very stressed at all.

The riffle/tailout above the bridge (where there is a small island) really fished well.

Aaron