Roaring River Conditions

[timsfly]

Water is above normal and murky, not real dirty about a 4 foot visability. It is actually in great shape for all the rain we received. 2 or 3 lb line is still reccomended for the river right now, I fished a bit yesterday and caught fish on a chamois worm, a brassie, a olive woolybugger and even a few on a crackleback. I had several customers come in and tell me they were starting to catch a few on caddis and adams yesterday afternoon, I did see a few rising when I was down, but not many so I stuck to under the surface flies.

Good flies in this water are, Woolybuggers, black, brown, olive and purple are good colors in high water, gold ribbed hares ears, pheasant tails, copper johns, and prince nymphs work well when the water is up, I had a few guys catching trout on scuds, sowbugs, and caddis larva yesterday.

The worm and egg fisherman are really doing well in the higher water, you need a bit more weight than what we had been using but other than that it is about the same, orange, cheese yellow and white worms, and in the eggs, hatch brown, flo.yellow, orange, and pink have been the best most of the week.

Jig fisherman, use a little heaiver jig in the faster water, let it get to the bottom and fish slowly, there should be some good fish moving around now that there is a lot of water, good colors would be black/yellow, olive, brown, and white.

Roostertails and mepps type spinners are working good early and late, but I did see a few caught in the fly area on a mepps yesterday, the lady was fishing them very slow and was hooking up on a trout every once in awhile.

In zone 3, I would use nightcrawlers, corn, and rainbow powerbait paste. good luck on the river this week.

Remember Kids free fishing day is May 20th at Roaring River State Park, all kids 15 and younger fish free on this day, come on down.

[Greg]

Tim my wife and I were down to RR a week ago (last Tues). She got to fish more than I did because I was attending a conference at the lodge. My wife's the one that bought the "hooked on a cure" Ross reel from your shop.

Anyway during the few hours I got to fish - I was surprised at the size of the fish I caught. Most were in the 14 to 15 inch range. Do you think that was random or do they normally stock them a little bigger at RR? Or maybe holdovers from winter? I was also surprised at how lightning quick the takes were on the bh nymph I was fishing. You had to be really fast setting the hook or the fish was gone! I caught some but missed a lot more.

Greg

[timsfly]

I think you must have just got into some holdover fish or just found some better fish, the average fish stocked right now is about 12" but I know that some of our fish are comming from other hatcheries right now, and we could have gotten some bigger ones from them, I fished this afternoon for about an hour and a half, and landed 12 nice fish, all about 12-13" long, but I saw a few that would push the 15" mark, I saw a brown that was probably closer to 18" long, but he would have none of what I was offering today

I'm glad you and your wife had a good time, enjoy the reel, they were very few of them made.