Fishing Report For 6/26

[DaddyO]

After waiting all spring for some wade-able water, it became available the week I left for Leadville, CO. I got back Friday night, but my fly supply was low after my trip to Leadville. I spent the day Saturday replenishing my supply and Sunday afternoon, I decided to drive to the river, after checking the gauges. Got on the water about 6pm.

As mentioned in other posts, the water looks like coffee after adding cream to it. Since the water temps were up, I decided to head to the island below the dam, thinking the water might be cooler. Started out in the big water above the island. Tried nymphing but didn't get any takes. Switched to an olive wooly with a green bead, got a good hit but broke it off. I don't know what it was. Tied on a black wooly with a red bead and picked up several Drum, small striper, crappie, perch and a really nice rainbow (2 to 2.5 lbs).

Moved to the kiddie pool. Got nothing. Moved to the trees below the kiddie pool and picked up a small rainbow and 3 really nice rainbows. That was the strange thing, there was nothing in between. With the exception of the small rainbow, all of the rest of the rainbows that I caught were like footballs. Not necessarily long, but wide and strong. Maybe caused by all of the high water.

Anyway, I moved to the backside of the island and switched to a Hot Spot BHPTN and caught fish almost every drift.

All in all, it was a good time fishing. No pics for this one. Sorry.

[asap52]

Daddyo,

How did your fishing trip to CO go?? Any pics??

Corky

[dgames]

So did you catch fish all the way down the back side of the island?

[JCWolfe]

I was there yesterday fishing behind the island and the trees below the kiddie pool. I left at 7. You were probably the one above the kiddie pool with the fly rod that I saw. I had an excellent day, my biggest fish was a smallmouth sucker, for weight. Longest was a few rainbows that were 16 and a channel cat that was 16". I hooked something that just took off and broke my line, I knew it was big but never saw it. Dirty water hasn't been a problem. I got there as the water was dropping, fishing was slow for awhile. I was glad to see they ran some water with the temps being so high.

[DaddyO]

Daddyo,

How did your fishing trip to CO go?? Any pics??

Corky

No pics of the CO fish. They were all small stockers. I caught a small Cutthroat stripping a Hares Ear at Crystal lake. The wind was blowing and it was brutally cold so I left after catching that fish. I wasn't dressed for that type of weather. (Wind, snow and rain)

A few days later, I went to Hayden Meadows and slayed them on a black zebra midge under an indicator retreived real slow. Rainbow, Brown, Cutthroat and Cutbow. All I needed was a Brook for the Slam.

[DaddyO]

So did you catch fish all the way down the back side of the island?

I only waded half way down and caught fish all the way. It got dark and I had to leave.

[DaddyO]

I was there yesterday fishing behind the island and the trees below the kiddie pool. I left at 7. You were probably the one above the kiddie pool with the fly rod that I saw. I had an excellent day, my biggest fish was a smallmouth sucker, for weight. Longest was a few rainbows that were 16 and a channel cat that was 16". I hooked something that just took off and broke my line, I knew it was big but never saw it. Dirty water hasn't been a problem. I got there as the water was dropping, fishing was slow for awhile. I was glad to see they ran some water with the temps being so high.

Yep. That was me above the kiddie pool with the flyrod. I was throwing the wooly bugger at about 7pm catching a variety of fish.

Stop and say "Hi" next time.

[OKFlyFisher44]

We hit the river last night around 8:30 with the big rods in search of stripers after hearing reports of people catching them from time to time. Fished till 10:00 with only a few tugs, a couple of snagged gar, and a sucker. It was pretty cool to fish the river at night, brought back memories of Taneycomo night fishing. I had high hopes that we would hook up with some stripers feeding at dusk and just after dark, but nothing.

River has changed A LOT in the sections we fished, crazy stuff. A lot deeper in several holes. Cant wait to see how things are once the water clears up.

I'm skeptical at how accurate the gauge is on the water temps because we were wet-wading last night and the water was pretty cool. Who knows...

[DaddyO]

Chance,

It was hot on Sunday, when I was fishing, but even then, the water was too cool for me to wet wade. My "manhood" is sensitive to cold water. So, I wore the waders.

I'm betting that the gauge is accurately reporting the temp of the water in that one spot, but, I don't think that is reflective of the river as a whole.

I've got a bad itch that needs scratching with a 7 wt and a Hibernator at night on TaneyCoMo. It'll probably be about a month before I can scratch that one.

[fly2fish]

I've got a bad itch that needs scratching with a 7 wt and a Hibernator at night on TaneyCoMo. It'll probably be about a month before I can scratch that one.

I am scratching mine all next week with a 4wt and hibernator when the water is down and spinning rod when it is up.

F2F