Bssp Report 7/17 & 7/18

[flyfishmaster]

Well I finally got to fish at BSSP for the first time since January. I was surprised how small the crowd was for the weekend.

I fished in Zone 2 "High Bank" area for most the trip. I took my brother in law and it was his first trout fishing ,plus his first time to use a fly rod. He did okay for his first time out. I think he was able to land 12, but he missed a lot as well.

okay here the report.

The water was the clearest I have fished in years and the flow was perfect. I have read older reports indicating the total number of fish in the stream is down.... I have to agree with that statement. The number was down but I was still able to catch a good number of fish. In the 12 hours of fishing we had over the two days (we did not start fishing until after 9 AM each day)I landed well over 50 fishing and a bunch more LDRs. I was surprised how many fish I was able to catch in water less than 8" deep, they were really hang behind the bigger rocks and willing to take my nymphs. I ran a double rig most of the day using 7x fluorocarbon. I was changing flies a lot through out the day but I cannot say any one flies was better or stood out. The only consistency was size 20 or smaller caught 90% of our fish.

Over all it was great weather and a good time. I hope I can get back down there soon.

Later,

FFM

[hfdhoosier]

thanks for the good report.....hope to get over there at the get together in august.

[flyfishmaster]

I forgot to mention that when we got to the park on Saturday morning, there was a guy at the store weighting in a 11 ¼ pound Brown trout. He said he caught it on the upstream side of the entrance arch bridge. That was one big fish. I have not looked to see if there are any photos of it out on some website.

Later,

FFM

[Joe C]

I forgot to mention that when we got to the park on Saturday morning, there was a guy at the store weighting in a 11 ¼ pound Brown trout. He said he caught it on the upstream side of the entrance arch bridge. That was one big fish. I have not looked to see if there are any photos of it out on some website.

Later,

FFM

Weaver's has a pic...

http://www.missouritrout.com/weavers/report.html

[stlfisher]

Sounds like a good day. I had considered Bennett on Saturday, but ended up on the Current instead. Good to hear the fishing went well.

[rcguy]

I fished Monday and Tuesday this week. Not super hot action for me. I caught some on differnet color midges. Zebra and olive seemed best. Also caught a few on an sz18 peach glowball with a bead head. For some reason they seemed to prefer it when dropped from a midge. John Deere produced nothing for me in several locations. Monday late evening

I got several takers on sz22 white Midge dry fly up by the Gauge house. Tuesday down in zone 2, by the rock hole, I caught several with a zebra Midge I tied with a few wraps of of hot pink at the bead...size 18. Tuesday morning I ran into FlyFishnFool up at the island a we had a good visit and landed a few fish. He had best luck on olive and dark brown midges and I had best luck on the small peach glowball again. I did catch a few on midges though. Again NO takers on the John Deere that I ha done so well on 3 weeks ago!

Go figure, stupid fish.

BTW, it was hot! Once in the stream it as not bad but getting the gear on was a bear!

[flyfishmaster]

RC,

I had the same issue, the zebra midges (black, rust, olive and red) just did not produce like past trips over the years. What up with that

Later,

FFM

[DoveTail]

I don't know how "trout park" fish can get educated so fast as they are just released from the hatchery, but they change with the pressure from previous years and they need a new fly they haven't seen. It is hot for a while, then it doesn't produce.