Report 07/14/2012

[DaddyO]

I got on the water about 7:30am, which was later than I wanted. I went to the top of the island. There were already a few people in my holes of choice. Interestingly, very few people at the Kiddie Pool. The water was off and very low. I rigged up and went to the big water above the pool. I caught a couple of fish on the Hair and Copper. I looked down river and noticed that one of my spots was empty. So, I reeled in my line and started making my way down river.

When I got to the Kiddie Pool, I noticed that it was empty and there were 4 bait fishermen headed to my spot and they were closer than me!! Dang it! Foiled again! Since the Kiddie Pool was empty I thought I'd make a few casts. First cast with the Bobwhite and Fish On! Nice fish. I caught 2 fish back to back and they shut down. Catching the 2 fish also brought in a few people to the hole. Time to try another spot.

Bait fishermen still in my spot. I didn't get to fish it all day. Went downstream to the bottom of the island. Switched to a #16 Bead Head Pheasant Tail and started picking up fish. I caught my biggest fish of the day below the Island. She was 14 - 15 inches and had quite a belly on her. Very fat fish, put a nice bend in the rod.

It was an enjoyable day of hard fishing for 10 Rainbows and 2 perch. (No Pics. Maybe next time.)

[Basketbreaker]

How long did you fish for? I havn't been back to the river since it starting getting hot out. Been itching to return but the generation schedule isn't very convenient.

[scuba.pete]

I made the trip from Owasso this morning and got on the water about 7 o'clock. I am pretty sure I was in one of your holes below the kiddie pool - I was wearing the camo boonie hat. After you moved down the river, I waited out the bait fishermen and pulled another half dozen from that hole before heading home.

[DaddyO]

I was on the water for about 5 hours.

Another Owasso member, scuba.pete. Maybe we all need to get together and do an outing. Yes, that hole is usually productive. I like to position myself so that I can bounce my indicator off of the downed tree with a Hair and Copper tied on. If there are fish in the hole, they'll hit that fly before the drift completes. I like to start my day off at that hole and then move on to other places.

[dgames]

Went this morning. Parked at the bottom end of the gravel lot and started in the hole at the bottom end of the island. Worked my way up the backside of the island and I got really lucky and got to fish all the spots. No other fly fishermen were back there. There was one group of bait fishermen, but they moved out before I got up to them.

Caught multiple fish at pretty much all the spots on the backside. Started off with a small bead head pheasant tail and did ok with that. Switched over to my favorite olive midge and that did really well. Last weekend they didn't want anything to do with the midge, but different story today.

It actually rained on me a little bit which was kind of nice as it kept the temps down.

After I reached the top of the island, there was a family fishing the kiddie hole, so I went to the slow water above. Stayed there about 20-30 minutes and only got one fish there.

Headed back down to my car for a drink and then ended the afternoon by messing around in the riffle water a few hundred feet below the rock weir at the bottom of the island. Caught several there including a couple on my dry fly indicator. Used a humpy as the indicator today instead of my usual stimulator and I was impressed how well it stayed afloat the entire day.

[DaddyO]

Is this the Olive midge that is tied with yellow thread and olive midge flash? If so, what size and are you wrapping the whole thing with the midge flash or just using it as a rib?

I tied up a couple in size #16 and wrapped over all of the yellow thread in touching turns with the midge flash. I also hit it with a coat of Sally Hansens. I tried it Saturday but didn't get any takers. I will, however, give it another chance by itself instead of the two fly rig that I had it in. (midge and Pheasant tail combo)

[dgames]

Yes, touching or even overlapping turns of the midge flash so that you just see the yellow thread through the midge flash and then at the bead where you tie it off and whip finish. The midge flash coated abdomen ends up kind of having a glow to it when the sun is out. I tie mine on tiemco 2499spbl hooks in size 16. Tiemco 2488 size 16 would be pretty equivalent. I coat mine with zap a gap and I would guess sally hansons would be comparable.

I didn't do well on that midge a week ago saturday either, but for some reason yesterday it was the effective again. I was catching some fish with the bead head pheasant tail (kind of adapted from your hare&copper where I use a pheasant tail abdomen and then used the h&c's looped brown/red dubbing mix for the thorax- also 16 on the 2499s). It seemed to pick up with the midge, but I was also probably getitng to the better holes on the back side, so it could have been that I was just fishing better spots.

[DaddyO]

Thanks. That's exactly what mine looked like. I'll have to tie up some PTN's like you mentioned. I can see how those would be effective.

[Nick Williams]

I was at Watts on Saturday morning. It was VERY foggy, kinda cool way to start out the day though. I got there early enough to get a stretch to myself though which was nice.

I was dropping copper johns and pheasant tails. The copper John always seems to be the ticket for me. I used a indicator and a hopper, though a hopper never draws any strikes for me.

The knots got me on Saturday. I was having a lot of trouble with line twist or something. It was horrible.

This was my biggest fish of the day. I got tired of throwing nymphs so I tied on a wooly bugger and saw him tailing, he wasn't much of a fight though!