Roaring River Report

[timsfly]

<p><img src="http://www.ozarkanglers.com/roaring-river/files/2012/01/photo.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="288" hspace="6" align="right" class="size-full wp-image-279 alignright" title="Tim Homesley" />Another great weekend at Roaring River state park, lots of eagles, lots of trout, very few fisherman, lots of eagle watchers.

<p>I caught a lot of trout this weekend on #16 and #18 parachute adams and blue wing olives. I know a few guys were still pounding them on the white chamois flies, and the orange was doing pretty good also. Olive, purple, white, tan and black buggers did very well all weekend, as did small #14-#16 cracklebacks. Caddis and griffiths gnats did well all weekend, good caddis hatches every afternoon. San juan worms in lt roe, dk roe, and the cream and white were effective all weekend.

Some of the guys are still throwing big streamers and still getting a big fish once in awhile, but the bite on big stuff seems to slowing down, the water has dropped again, even with the rain we got last week the water is still low and clear, I'm using 6x on nymphs, small buggers and streamers, 7X on all my dries and 5X and heavier on big streamers.

<p>Nymphs will work all day long right now, #14's and smaller work better right now, pheasant tails, zebra midges, copper johns, burlaps, sow bugs, and gold ribbed hares ears will all work well. Glo-balls, in lt. roe, oregon cheese, apricot, white/red, brown, and the olive are all working well.<p>

If you have a kid or just want to pound a few trout real quick, get a pellet fly or a doz and go up by the hatchery outlets when the MDC is feeding trout and you can have a lot of fun for an hour or so.

Just two more weekends of C&amp;R left, come down and enjoy, been a beautiful winter so far, lot of the weekends have been in the 60's this year, to good to be true, it has given us one of the best dry fly fishing winter in years.</p>

[drew03cmc]

Hopefully the 11th, I will be down.

[BackCastingGolfer]

I'll be out there next weekend!

[Fly Fishing Fantasma]

I will be down there the 10th......T minus 6 days... man I can't wait. Sad to hear the bite is slowing on the big stuff. What are good patterns for bigger fish if the larger buggars aren't working?

[drew03cmc]

Marabou muddlers are a good choice, as are sculpzillas in sculpin colors.

[Fly Fishing Fantasma]

Thanks drew....t minus 5 days

[drew03cmc]

The flies I have that I plan to throw at RR include San Juan Worms in a #14, gray scuds in a #16, cress sowbugs in a #18 and maybe some buggers in a #10. I also have a couple #18 zebra midges to throw if nothing else works.

[On The Fly 6]

I fished on the park this past Sunday. As I was pulling my line through the guides for the first time that day...the tip of my 4 wt decided to snap off. I stood, dumbfounded, looking at the broken piece of my fly rod. After a few choice swear words, I had to make a choice...drive the hour and ten minutes back home, or go see if I could get a decent rod for a good price at Tims. After weighing the pros and cons in my head and trying to imagine the frustration I would hear from my wife, I did what any rational person would do and went to get a new rod . I found a nice little Orvis Streamline for a good price that Tim had just traded for and gladly took it off his hands. I was back on the water in 30 minutes. I managed a few fish on dries with my new purchase before calling it a day and heading home to face the music. The events that followed weren't pretty, but I get to keep my new toy!

[drew03cmc]

Tim is a good guy isn't he?

[On The Fly 6]

Indeed!