Blue Ribbon Report 10/5/06

[superfly]

My friend Mike and I fished Greer to Turner yesterday. High in the low 70's and partially cloudy. The Eleven Point is in great shape. There was a lot of big black stoneflies in the water along with a healthy crayfish population. The fishing was excellent. All of the rainbows put on a good fight. The average size was around 12-14 inches. We used weighted prince nymphs, bitch creeks (black and orange), don's crawdads, black stonefly, and egg patterns(orange, salmon, pink). Mike also did well on streamers. Anything big in the following colors (wine, brown, black). We caught and released about 45 fish for the day. No big ones to speak of just great numbers. Matt

[Brian Sloss]

Good report, glad you had a good day. Was your catch rate better on the top half or lower half of that stretch? I'd been finding the uppper half to fish better, but starting to get reports that the lower is picking up as well. Just curious how it was for you.

[superfly]

Brian,

The whole stretch fished well. I felt that the upper half had more stockers along with smaller parr marked rainbows. The middle section to Mary Decker Shoals had a lot of clean finned rainbows. How about a Michigan Report. Matt

[Brian Sloss]

It is upcoming as soon as my pictures arrive.