FISHING REPORT 7/14/2006

[John Berry]

I took a client to the Norfork yesterday. it was my first trip with him and he is fairly new to fly fishing. We got to the river about eight o'clock. The first couple of hours were slow and he took a bit of time getting accustomed to high sticking nymphs. After fishing small nymphs with limited success, I tied on a worm brown san juan worm. On the first drift, we hooked a twenty four inch male rainbow in full spawning color. After a spirited fight we finally landed him. On the next drift, we hooked up a twenty inch cutthroat. He fought harder than the bow, but we prevailed. We caught two more fish on the worm then nothing. We switched to a size eighteen olive scud and the fishing got hot. We started tagging one fish after another (probably in excess of twenty five good heavy trout). The biggest was a twenty one inch cutt. The fishing was so good we decided to fish through lunch and decided not to stop untill the water came up. About two PM the water came up and fast. We returned to the access and leisurely ate lunch. We packed up and spent the rest of the day at Rim. It was good but nothing like the Norfork that day.