Fishing Report

[MikeH]

I got out and fished the river Thursday the 14th then again Monday and Tuesday this week. I'd describe the fishing from Thursday as slower but steady. I nymphed most of the day then switched over to dry/dropper the last couple hours. A couple came up for the dry but most came on nymphs. Fly of the day was a rusty brown biot nymph.

Monday I came back and camped down at Parker. Fishing was slow. I did manage a couple small browns well upstream but remained troutless most of the day. The two browns came right off the bottom on a hare's ear Czech. The water felt warm for trout so I figure a lot of fish have migrated upstream. Those left were sulking on bottom. I finished up my fishing at Parker with some evening streamer fishing and then again early the next morning but I quickly decided I was switching accesses for Tuesday.

Back at Baptist I went back to nymphing. Fishing was amazing all the way down to Ashley Creek and remained steady on the return trip. The fly of the day was easily a big #4 Vladi-worm. It worked great on the deep and fast holes but was way too much fly for the shallower water. For these stretches I had a jiggy pheasant tail on point. I had the biot nymph on dropper again, although a hot-spotted version this time. I went to dry dropper towards the end of the day. The biot nymph left the nymph rig and got hung off a big black klinkhammer. I had more risers than last Thursday but most still took the nymph. What fish I did catch on top came within inches of the bank and were really violent takes. This has my really itching for hopper fishing.

That just about sums up the trips. More pics and a slightly longer report at the blog. http://showmeff.blogspot.com/2012/06/current-river-report.html

-Mike

[Greasy B]

Excellent report and some great fish. I quess there is hope for our best trout stream.

[3wt]

Great report. If you wouldn't mind, can you describe your nymphing rig(s) in more detail. I am the worst nymph fisherman, but I want to get better. I've been finding that my typical attempts lack weight and enough distance from indicator to fly (ies).

Anyway, sounds like you do some euro or hybrid styles that are interesting and I'd like to hear more about it.

[10pointer]

_{Great report, has anyone else noticed alot of torn up fish? Alot of the nice rainbows and browns I have been landing and seeing have big chunks out of them, Im talking about a good 30 or 40 at least between the cable and tanvat last week. Seems odd to me looks like gig marks maybe? That or some type of predator. Any ideas?}

_{Water is also so low and clear that the snaggers can have right at them poor browns they stand their ground and arent as skittish as alot of the rainbows}

[Nortrad]

Nice report and interesting that the Vladi was successful.

My first big brown on the Current had a snag hole. I have also caught 'bows with holes on top, probably heron attacks.

[LunkerB]

Maybe otters have tried snagging em up.

[MikeH]

Great report. If you wouldn't mind, can you describe your nymphing rig(s) in more detail. I am the worst nymph fisherman, but I want to get better. I've been finding that my typical attempts lack weight and enough distance from indicator to fly (ies).

Anyway, sounds like you do some euro or hybrid styles that are interesting and I'd like to hear more about it.

Yep, euro nymphing. My set up all starts with the long leader. It's roughly 20 feet but the last few are the interesting part. The last 3 sections are golden Stren then neon tangerine Suffix followed by hi-vis yellow Suffix. My tippet goes off this; usually about 6ft. of 4lb flouro with a 3-4in. dropper about a foot from the bottom. This set up is nice and versatile, allowing me to do everything from short line Czech style to long line French style. All I have to do is reel in or pull out enough leader for the situation. The fly on dropper can be any old nymph but the fly on point is your anchor. This varies. A fly like that big Vladi-worm might be needed for some holes while on the other hand I was using just a #16 beadhead in the shallows. No matter which style you're doing it's still generally just flipping your flies up/up and across and following/leading them back down using the colored section of leader to control depth and help detect strikes. Detecting strikes is tricky at first but eventually it kind of clicks. Sometimes you feel them, sometimes you see them and sometimes you just sort of know. Hope this helps.

-Mike

[jgentile]

I too hit Baptist last Thursday 6/28/12. Got there at 0515 just in time to get rigged up and hit the water at sunrise. The fish are/were stacked up in every deep hole run and happy to bite in the early morn. I used a size 6 Vladi worm on point with a size 16 un-weighted scud early then switched to 16/14 biot nymphs in either olive or brown. The fishing was better than decent with one rainbow probably close to 20". It was taken with the Vladi. Funny thing that fish was part of my first double hook up. The second fish, taken on the nymph was a large minnow (2")of some sorts. A legit, albeit cheap, really cheap double nonetheless. No pic as the fish was pretty beat up and it took quite a bit to revive him/her. I need a better system for my i-phone so I can snap pics quicker. Any ideas here?