8/1/09

[FlyfishingEngineer]

Despite the high water myself, a close friend, and a first timer managed a great day on the river. We tried several different patterns including the black stonfly with a copper John dropper, Don's Crawdad with an egg pattern below, and black stone fly with gold stone fly below. All the referenced patterns produced a few fish, but the best by far was a black stone fly with some kind of triple bead head black nymph pattern I got at T.Hargrove a few weeks back. I only had one of them and a healthy 20+ incher made off with that after about an hour or so. That pattern outfished the others two to one. The fish were very deep and not one fish was caught from the shoals or swift chutes.

[Scudz Rule]

SOUNDS LIKE IT WAS A HEAVY NYMPH. MAY BE WHY IT OUTFISHED OTHERS. YOU WERE PROBALY GETTING IT RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR FACE, GOOD THING. WERE YOU USING HEAVY SHOT ALSO? GOT TO GIT UR DOWN, TO GIT UR DONE