7/22 Report

[Danoinark]

Bill that has always been my attitude...high water I just don't go because I typically like to wade.

I have fished the White in boats and found fish. I would agree with Ken that you can catch a few along the banks in weed beds and slower water. Actually Ken I think once when you and I went you did fish scuds on two and caught some between outlet 1 and 2? It's got to be an art, but like I said, I am not sure I have the confidence to catch them then, which of course translates to not having much luck...Dano

[Micheal Kyle]

I have to to agree with what Silvermallard and Bill have said. The fish will not move around so the slack water is great. They can sit there and wait for food to come buy at there leisure. One thing that I will do when they are running the water is to use a sink tip in the 150-300 grain depending on the amount of generation. With one -two units on the ones that I will use the most are Rio's stremer tip in the Intermediate version and or the 150 grain sink tip. I feel that gets the fly down quick and keeps it down. I love to fish streamers and love the sculpins the best during the day. I tie a sulpin in a gold vairant color on a size 6 with medium presentation eyes. I have caught alot of 20"+ fish on that fly. One more fly that works great for me when the water is on is the bunny leech in a size 10-4 with small to medium presentation eyes. The color will depend on if it is over cast or bright and sunny. On the overcast days I will use grays, black and purple on the bright days I will use the lighter colors like a olive, brown and and even white. I just happen to check the computer tonight before we left for Estes Park. I will not be able to respond to anything untill we get back. I will hopfully have a great fishing report only time will tell. One other thing I can not belive we are about 3-4 weeks away from some awsome fishing on Taney.

Michael

[Thom]

I used to think the same way about fast water until I dicovered what some of the others have said. You must get down to where the fish are. Now I drift tungste bead hares ears, tungsten bead weighted 1/64 green,pink or tan jigs. Multicolored egg flys all weighted until I hit the level that I catch fish. Since I tie most flys I cringe every time I snag and lose the flys, but I would rather lose a few flies than pack it in or not catch fish.

The only down side is that it takes a lot of gas to fish high water because landing fish is harder and you need to return to the upper water more often.

Looking forward to being on Taney with sons and grandchildren the first week in August.

[strangercreek]

Same here, once I decided to use micro jigs, tungsten beadheads etc., I am more successful during generation. Saturday afternoon I took a nice 17 in rainbow on a 1/124 oz white micro jig (I don't usually fish jigs but have been trying them more after reading some of Phil's posts).