Tuesdays Fishing

[Fishing Milwright]

Finally got a chance to wade fish. We caught 13 &14 each with all of the fish 14 to 17 inches. They were in good health and fought very well. Most were caught on a red zebra midge.

I am wondering about what the flood and high water has done to the food supply. The tail water was 701 to 701.7 and I turned over about 40 rocks to see what bugs were available to my supprise not one rock had any bugs or scuds on them. In past years there was numerous bugs under the rocks. I did this at the bend after the boat ramp and before the old KOA camp.

[Phil Lilley]

The gravel in that area is still moving a bunch and clean so I doubt if you're going to see bugs there for a while. After the flood, our gravel was moved so much I think most of the bugs (scuds) went downstream. We're starting to see them again in the normal areas now and the trout are keying in on them. It takes time after an event like we had a year ago.