Fishing Buddy Report-February 27Th-Day Two

[eacoffman]

My wife and I arrived at the dam around 11:15, it was sunny and about 55 degrees with a slight breeze. Janet kept her #16 rust and brown zebra midge that she used yesterday and I rigged a #16 rust and brown zebra midge 12" above a #16 gold midge dropper. We both set our indicators at 18".

We went up to the cable and Janet caught one rainbow and had a couple of misses. They did not seem to be nearly as interested in the rust and brown midge as they had been yesterday. After about 40 minutes Janet went to the rebar hole and changed to a #18 tan scud but she did not get any hits.

I caught three rainbows on the dropper, I couldn't get the fly out of the thrid rainbow's lip so I had to cut my tippet to release the fish. I cut the tippet from the bend of the top fly and continued to fish the rust and brown zebra midge solo. On the next three consecutive casts I caught rainbows, on the fourth cast I had a long distance release. From that point on I had no other hits with the rust and brown midge. The third rainbow was the largest, it was only 14" long, but was really fat and fought hard. One of the smallest rainbows jumped out of the water three times before I got him to the net.

When the hits on the midge stopped, I switched to a #14 brown crackleback and worked my way down toward the rebar hole. I stripped the fly several different ways but was not able to get a hit on it. We broke for lunch at about 1:15.

I returned to the dam at 3:00 PM and fished a #18 black WD 40 in the current above and below the rebar hole and only had one hit. I then switched to a #14 green wooley bugger and stripped it in slack water and had no hits. At around 5:00 PM the horn blew and I headed to the stairs at outlet #3 and fished the wooley bugger with a split shot under an indicator from the bank. I had only one hit and left soon thereafter.

We would like to catch a few rainbows on something other than a midge, rain is in the forecast for tomorrow so we will see what happens.

[flyrodman]

Sounds like a fun time!

[On The Fly 6]

Ill be making my first trip to Taneycomo this weekend. Any suggestions for flies I should have in my box?