Friday & Saturday Night Reports

[fly2fish]

Fished Friday and Saturday nights with my sons room mate last year from Stillwater. Started Friday night at outlet 1 I was using flyrod and he was trying spinning rod with a pms jig. Water was 703.8 with about a half unit running, within 30 minutes it was off so we headed down to upper end of big hole. I immediately hooked up on the first cast using black and purple hibinator. Thought it was on except I was only hooking about every 3rd or 4th hit thought it might be a dull hook since I have caught over 200 fish on that same fly, except I stuck it in my finger when I was shaking one off and it was still as sharp as ever so it had to be me just being a little to anxious on the hook set. After about 20 on the flyrod, Scott still had not had any on the jig and was getting a lot of moss so I had him try the flyrod. He had not used one for about 10 years and at first I was casting it for him, then had him make a cast on his own and he hooked up on his first cast, fish measured just short of 16 inches. He is hooked on fly fishing now. Finished with between 25-30 for the night not great but good to fish with the water off for a change.

Saturday night we headed down message said 2 units level 704.4. After we suited up at the shelter I called again before we got out the spinning rods and it said 0 units level 703.6. I told Scott he would have to use a fly rod and he was OK with that after the night before. I rigged him up with the Sage Launch 7wt with 5 weight line and I used Sage 4wt with 3wt line, I had not used that combination before but it cast better than the 5 weight line that I had been using on it. We hit big hole and I landed 3 in the first 5 cast and had 5 in the first 10. Scott had 3 in about the same time. Fish started out in the 14-17 in range and as the night progressed we started catching more of the silver bullets 10-13 inch range. About 2:45 I wanted to hit rebar and had switched to white beadhead pms pattern and picked up 2 nice rainbows just dragging it along right below the root wad. Fished about 10 minutes at rebar with several hard hits but no hook ups. Looks like I have corrupted another young person to the dark side of flyfishing. Glad I bring several fly rods when I come, last Christmas I got another one of his friends a fly rod and reel and last month he went with me and caught his first trout on it and now fishes in the ponds for bass with it.

Will hit it again tonight.

F2F

[Murdoc]

Nice report! Thanks for making my hand twitch. Thanks for the great report anyway!!!