Bssp C&r, 11-15-09

[FishinCricket]

Stormy day, drizzled and spit all day and downpoured once or twice for a few minutes.. The wife had to go in to work some OT, so I took the opportunity to do my second favorite thing in the world!

The spring is up a bit, but stil plenty clear and fishable.. Just watch where you step! I started my adventure in the spring hole and managed to coax two trout into biting my fly (that's right, I used my fly rod first! Wrench would be proud), but neither made it al the way in.. I spotted a monster brown that wasn't taking my fly (and I watched him long enough that I got irritated) and so I went back to the Tracker and got out the ultralight.. Got him on the first cast! But alas, he spit it out and headed for the deep section. I got the fly rod back out and fished for another hour in the 200 yard stretch past the spring hole.. Nuttin, and none of the other fly guys were hooking up either. So I decided to get the maribou and the ultra light back out. Caught four or five more stockers there and had to use the bathroom so I headed back up to the store.

After grabbing a quick snack and a cup of joe, I parked next to the dam and walked over to the hole above the dam...

I stood on the edge of the concrete and bounced my jig around long enough to hook up with a few stockers and even had one big bow chase the jig all the way back up to my feet!

Strolled on down to the rocks just below the dam on that side and hooked up with two pretty decent browns and one fat little 14 inch bow, she was a SOW.. NO pic though, I was perched precariously on slippery rocks and all I had was my iphone.. Besides, if you've seen one 14 incher you've seen em all, eh?

Cruised down even further and there was a guy standing just below the bridge there on the downstream side.. So I stepped down onto the rocks on the upstream side and teased a few more trout out with the Black and White Maribou.. Seemed like the fish wanted to see it running a bit, then they would come after it ferociously..

That's just what this big bugger did. He hit my jig three times before he committed.. Then he was kind of a pansy.. lol He had a big nasty knot on the tip of his lower jaw and he had fishing line wrapped around it in a bunch, with an orange anvil egg hooked through it.. Cleaned all that off and put him back, but asked the fellow (who had by then come on over to watch me catch him) standing there to take a picture of me with it first.. Definitely exciting to be able to watch a big one like that come up and bump your lure a few times then hammer it..

It was getting wet and nasty so I went and sat in the Tracker for a little while, then decided to cruise on down to the Suzy Hole and see if the Goggleye had moved up yet. No they have not, but I did manage to tease a few more bigger bows out of the depths, and one 15 inch smallmouth! I decided to go in search of the goggleye, so I went on down to the outlet at the end of zone three. They've staged up at the mouth, and there were quite a few there to be caught. I spent about 20 minutes hooking one every cast, and even managed to tease up a decent 14-18 inch smallie.. I guesstimate because halfway in my little maribou's hook snapped in half! (bless it's lil pea-pickin' heart) Thought I had broke off, then thought he had simply spit it out.. Upon my next hook up and spit out I decided to look at the hook, and there was no hook.. lol For around a dollar apiece those things at the baitshop store are kinda wimpy! lol

Anyways, I cruised back up to the hole under the bridge where I'd had the best luck, put my waders back on and put my fly rod back together.. Tied on a itzy bitzy maribou jig in black and white and tried it for a few minutes.. Just couldn't get confident with it, I suppose.. Walked back up an got the ultralight, came back down and cast in and it was on like donkey kong! Stayed there til about 3 pm then it started to pour, so I packed it up and headed home...

Ended the day with a fishcount of around 50, definitely one of my most productive days in the park.. Anybody else make it down to Bennett this Weekend?

[fishinwrench]

Nice kype !

Did you try the Anvil Egg that was "delivered" to you ?

[Paola Cat]

Good job Cricket. PC

[FishinCricket]

Thanks PC!

Nice kype !

Did you try the Anvil Egg that was "delivered" to you ?

Nope, still stuck in my hat.. lol (thanks for reminding me!)

What's Kype mean? where'd it come from?

[ohmz138]

Good job cricket. That is one mean beak he has!

[jjtroutbum]

What's Kype mean? where'd it come from?

Oncorhynchus is a genus of fish in the family Salmonidae; it contains the Pacific salmons and Pacific trouts. The name of the genus is derived from the Greek onkos ("hook") and rynchos ("nose"), in reference to the "kype" - the hooked jaw of males in mating season

From Wiki I new kype meant hooked jaw. But not why it did is I looked it up.

[FishinCricket]

Oncorhynchus is a genus of fish in the family Salmonidae; it contains the Pacific salmons and Pacific trouts. The name of the genus is derived from the Greek onkos ("hook") and rynchos ("nose"), in reference to the "kype" - the hooked jaw of males in mating season

From Wiki I new kype meant hooked jaw. But not why it did is I looked it up.

Ah, thanks JJ

[flyfishmaster]

FC,

First NICE FISH. THat thing has a bigger jaw then Jay Leno.

Will I guess I have to kick myself for not going down this weekend, since Iwas planning on going over two months ago.

I will be down soon.

Later,

FFM

[NoLuck]

Cricket it looks like you had a pretty good day too. I was down Saturday and fished till the whistle. I only saw a few guys having success while I was there. From what I saw you had to be deep like almost on the bottom or fishing a dry to the few selective fish that were feeding on top. I stopped at Readings on the way out and he said he didn't hear from too many people that were having much luck.

I struggled at first till I got down deep to them. I landed a rainbow that was near 3.5lbs and I almost landed one that was probably close to 6lbs. The old 3wt had a pretty good bend in it trying to land that one. Guess I should have had the 5wt. Depending on what happens this week I may be down next weekend. I was on my way to Hoover dam this morning when I blew the motor in my work truck OUCH!!! I made it to the Richland exit #150. My boss is looking for a used Dodge dually diesel with a manual trans with a 5.9 Cummins 24 Valve if you happen to know of one. 2 Wheel drive only which is pretty hard to find with a decent amount of miles.

Cya,

Rich

[FishinCricket]

Cricket it looks like you had a pretty good day too. I was down Saturday and fished till the whistle. I only saw a few guys having success while I was there. From what I saw you had to be deep like almost on the bottom or fishing a dry to the few selective fish that were feeding on top. I stopped at Readings on the way out and he said he didn't hear from too many people that were having much luck.

I struggled at first till I got down deep to them. I landed a rainbow that was near 3.5lbs and I almost landed one that was probably close to 6lbs. The old 3wt had a pretty good bend in it trying to land that one. Guess I should have had the 5wt. Depending on what happens this week I may be down next weekend. I was on my way to Hoover dam this morning when I blew the motor in my work truck OUCH!!! I made it to the Richland exit #150. My boss is looking for a used Dodge dually diesel with a manual trans with a 5.9 Cummins 24 Valve if you happen to know of one. 2 Wheel drive only which is pretty hard to find with a decent amount of miles.

Cya,

Rich

Dang, sounds like you had good luck this weekend and are making up for it with the truck now! Sorry to hear of the one, and glad to hear of the other...

I will keep my eye out for one of those trucks for you.. Reg/Club/Quad cab? Sounds like a specific request, just PM me if there's anything else you can think of that is required (or conversely if one of the above requirements changes).. I'll PM you if I come up with anything...

Looks like this next weekend will be a good one for the C&R, you gonna be around on Sunday perchance, or just saturday?