Last Night fishing report

[Leonard]

I got to the water about 9pm..

I started with a 4in rapapla..caught 1 fish about a 12 brown.. and 1 very strong hit.. but missed that one....

then I went to my car and got the fly... I wanted to drift a scud under a lite indictor before I meet up with Jeff and his buddy Ron...

well I got busy.... BSing with a few people in the parking and didnt make it dpwn before he got

After he got there, we started fishing up around chute 2.. did ok

then we walked down to the big.. did well

then about 11:30 we went up stream between 1 & 2.. I'll let him fill in all the blanks..

all in all I think he had fun (if that tells you anything!!)

I'll let him tell the rest!!

here's one of our 20" fish.. aftre this the batteries went down on my camera

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v732/Leo...73/91406Bow.jpg

Phil...

It was great to see you there last night... how did you end up doing???

Leonard

[Phil Lilley]

Fished from 11:15 pm to 12:45 am. 1 cars at outlet 1 lot and 6 cars in the main parking lot so there were a few out fishing. Started at the midstream rock above Big Hole and moved down to Big Hole as I casted. Used a variety of streamers- Leonard's leaches and sculpin patterns mainly in black, small, unweighted woolies- black and white. I used white at Leonard's suggestion and caught one rainbow. Caught another small rainbow on a leach. That's all the hole would yield last night- 2 each- just like Leonard and Jeff. Missed 10 strikes in 90 minutes of fishing- some quick and hard and some soft. Saw 2-3 very large browns jump last night along with some smaller ones... so it is starting.

I tried lots of different retrieves... the best was short quick strips with a 5 second pause- they'd hit it on the pause. Most strikes came on the pause- when the fly either wasn't moving or swinging.

Nice to meet you Jeff- hope to see you Leonard again soon.

[raincrow]

Thanks for the other night, had a great time and fished the next night and did very well. Once again thanks, owe you a big time, Mark

[Jeff House]

Just got back to work where I have computer access ( my computer desk at home was retrofitted into a fly tying desk and the computer sits in the closet!)and wanted to give a big thanks to Leonard for taking my friend and I out last Thursday at Taney. From showing me his most productive night spots to giving us some of his killer fly patterns to use and giving us pointers on retrieves he really made the trip a great learning experience. I would guess that I personally caught 20- 25 fish in the 3 1/2 hours we fished, this far exceeded my previous nighttime trips with the flyrod. Even more important to me than the fish caught was the time he spent instructing us on the different methods he uses at night and the behavior habits of the trout at night(which is totally different than during day time hours). I would not hesitate to reccomend Leonard to anyone interested in learning the intricacies of nighttime flyfishing on Taney. Thanks again Leonard.