FISHING REPORT 8/13/2006

[John Berry]

With 100 degree heat in Oklahoma, Southwest Power is running more water than they have in a year. This is good news if you like to fish from a boat and not so good if you like to wade. On Monday, I had a client that wanted to wade. We launched my boat at the Rim Shoals Boat Ramp and motored up to Red Bud Shoals. We waded out and fished Copperheads (brown woolly buggers with a black tail, brown hackle, copper bead and copper flash) and olive scuds size 18. We caught plenty of fish and had the river to ourselves. We tried hoppers and soft hackles with no luck. All in all a very good day.

[Danoinark]

John

Does that Copperhead Wooley have brown chenile or Estaz for a body? What sizes were working? Thanks.

Dan

[John Berry]

I tie them in size 10 because I can cast them with a four weight. I use small chenile and over size hackle. That gives me a larger hook gap but I still have the look of a large bug. I have been tying them for twenty years the copper flash shows up well in off color water. I must say that the copper bead is a relatively new development. Give them a try!