Tan Vat Report

[jah]

Drove down to Tan Vat Friday afternoon with my wife. We waded downstream and fished with pink egg patterns with white jig heads. We each had on a stonefly pattern above the egg. Caught 3 rainbows in 2 hours, all on the egg pattern.

Saturday was much better. Fished from 7 am until 4 pm. My wife caught about 7 or 8 rainbows in between a 3 hour break on the lawn chair with a book. I caught about 20 throughout the day. All but 2 of mine came on that same egg pattern. The other ones came off of a rubber leg stonefly and a chili pepper that I dead drifted. Every deep hole was packed with hungry fish, it seemed.

I also threw an October Caddis out there with a prince nymph dropped below. Nothing....not even a curious look. And nothing whatsoever on the larger stoneflies that I was fishing. I was definitely on the bottom too....

[ozark trout fisher]

Drove down to Tan Vat Friday afternoon with my wife. We waded downstream and fished with pink egg patterns with white jig heads. We each had on a stonefly pattern above the egg. Caught 3 rainbows in 2 hours, all on the egg pattern.

Saturday was much better. Fished from 7 am until 4 pm. My wife caught about 7 or 8 rainbows in between a 3 hour break on the lawn chair with a book. I caught about 20 throughout the day. All but 2 of mine came on that same egg pattern. The other ones came off of a rubber leg stonefly and a chili pepper that I dead drifted. Every deep hole was packed with hungry fish, it seemed.

I also threw an October Caddis out there with a prince nymph dropped below. Nothing....not even a curious look. And nothing whatsoever on the larger stoneflies that I was fishing. I was definitely on the bottom too....

I thought pretty seriously about coming down to Tan Vat or Baptist on Saturday, but I ended up at Piney instead. Sounds like it ain't fishing too bad down there.

Eggs are king down there, aren't they? Those fish down there on the Current seem to hit eggs all year, it's kinda odd.