Bsc Fishing Report 5-8-11

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You got to love the wife when she recommended that we go down to BSC on Mother's Day. So I packed up the family and headed down.

The creek was up and slightly off colored. One of the good holes (first one upstream of the "double L") will be tough to fish as a very large tree (foot, foot and half across) fell across it. Good for the fish though. It will provide some nice cover.

I didn't get to fish the creek hard because my nine year old was "so so bored". I did bring three Blue Spring specials to hand...one on a green and partridge, one on a black woolly, and one on a bead head crackleback. I had two misses from some decent size fish that flashed in the off colored water.

I did get some good insect samples from below the waterfall hole. One was a free living cream caddis pupae w/brown head that was huge...a size ten maybe an eight. I've been fishing 14 and 16s. I'll have to tie some larger sizes and give them a try (it will also allow for some lead to help get them down in the high water). The other sample was a nymph (crawler or clinger don't know), but it was much lighter in color then I expected...cream with brown marking on top. So to match the hatch go with a hare's ear's of lighter color or a tan died pheasant tail. I'll try to post a pic once my wife downloads her camera. The third was a scud, caught them by the ton....dark grey and go small 16, 18, or even a 20 as a dropper might work. No hatch that I could see.

Good Luck and Good Fishing

Mic

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Added the pics. Can't fix the size at work, will do later.

[Gavin]

Thats a golden stonefly...pretty common bug on BSC....along with scuds...the big larva might have been a cranefly instead of a caddis...but no way to tell w/o a picture.

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Thats a golden stonefly...pretty common bug on BSC....along with scuds...the big larva might have been a cranefly instead of a caddis...but no way to tell w/o a picture.

I just figured that out. It was the three plates and two tail. For anyone interested..."the book" (Handbook of Hatches) recommends the Golden Montana Stone fly.

Hook: 3x Long 6-12 (the sample was most likely a twelve

Weight: Lead Wrap

Thread: Black or Brown

Tails: Light Turkey Biots

Rib: Gold Lace (optional)

Body: Yellowish brown dubbing

Gills: One or Two light gray ostrich herl fibers tied with the hackle

Hackel: Two turns of one brown and one grizzly hen or soft hackle (wound together)

I've never tied this fly so can someone expand on "ostrich herl wound with hackle". Never seen it before.

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Here is some nice pics my wife took.

[Buzz]

Looks like a beautiful creek.

[mhall02]

That looks like a lot more water than when I went!

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That looks like a lot more water than when I went!

Yea that spot where my daughter and I are kneeling is normally six inches or so above the water line.

[flyfishmaster]

mic,

The water looks great, I'm sure the fish were able to spread out a bit with the higher water.

Later,

FFM

[Trout Commander]

Man that water looks sexy!

I would try this fly as an imitation for the stone in your pic. Might tie it a couple links shorter though.