Fishing Report 5/5/2006

[John Berry]

Yesterday I fished Rim Shoals with my brother, Dan, and my friend Larry for a couple of hours. I started nymphing with a zebra midge because that was what was on my rod from my last trip. I caught a fish on the first cast and pumped its stomach to find it filled with sulphur nymphs. I tied on a pheasant tail size sixteen and caught a few fish. I switched to a Copper John size sixteen and it was gang busters. I started picking up fish after fish. It was non stop. I noticed several sulphur adults coming off, but the fish were not keying in on them. I switched to a sulphur dry and fished it for a while with no luck. Upstream my brother Dan had caught a few on Sulphurs but it was slow on the top.

[mnunnelee]

john-

I am coming down for next week. Any advice on what to pick up fly wise. before we make the trip. i am sure I will get more there, but just looking for advice. I will be fishing Bull shoals, Rim Shoals, and wildcat.

thanks

[John Berry]

I would make sure that I had some copper johns size 16, zebra midges size 18, olive scuds size 18, partridge and orange size 14. That should get you started. They have been working for me the last week. Good Luck.

[mnunnelee]

john-

Thanks for the input. Hopefully I will be able to post success stories next week.