Fishing Report For 12-28-11

[JCWolfe]

Crowded with the warm weather. Bring on the cold to drive away the fair weather fisherman.

[dgames]

I found that the fish I caught seemed to be in pockets and if you found them.......then you would catch a bunch of them.

That is exactly what we saw on Friday. Worked for an hour and a half or so and had about 5 fish and then found a really good hole and caught 20-30 out that one spot. My friend who was downstream from me found the same thing that there was a sweet spot in the hole he was fishing and once he got into that spot, he did really well.

[On The Fly 6]

I fished at Watts and at the gravel parking area. I saw more cars than I'd ever seen before but I think a lot of that had to do with it being the last fishing day of the year. I started fishing around 11:30 and didn't catch a freakin thing until I was about to leave around 4:45. There were people everywhere with stringers full of fish, but I hadn't even had a bite! Lots of lead chunkers pulling fish in at the kiddie pool, but there was only myself and two other guys fly fishing above the boulders. One guy fishing the slower water near me was catching fish. I was not. I hate being out fished by spin cast fisherman for some reason. Anyway, after everyone had cleared out of the kiddie pool and I had started making my peace with not catching anything, I started back to the car. I paused for a moment at the kiddie pool and sure enough, I caught a fish right away. I figured why not dink around a little longer, so I kept my line in the water and pulled in one more. I got numerous hits and rolled several off the bottom, but I knew that I should be heading home to spend new years with the wife so I reeled in and headed to the car. That was probably the 2nd worst experience id had at the LIR simply because it was really crowded and I couldn't catch a thing! Hopefully my next excursion will yield better results

[JCWolfe]

You had to be one of the fortunate ones to get a "pocket" of fish. Too many people. I'm the kind of fisherman that would fish that pocket but would move on so others could get in on some of the action as well. Not everyone is like that as I saw. I only went because my daughter had never fly fished before so I wanted her to experience that. I would have never went on that day myself knowing it was going to be crowded. My daughter brought to hand 5 and had several misses. We never got into one of those pockets of fish but managed some. My son in law had 11 and I got 9 so it was an okay day. I enjoyed getting to see my daughter fish, I'll have my days when I get to concentrate more on fishing.

My daughters first fly fishing trout, i was looking elsewhere when she hooked up.