Taneycomo Wadefishing Below The Dam

[Brian K. Shaffer]

I fished from 3pm til 5:45.. caught quite a few spawning colored male rainbows in the rebar area.

Got to hook up and lose one really big fish.. possible 6-8lb'er or so.. not sure if it was rainbow or brown.

Saw lots of fish on redds.. all bows.

All my fishing was from top of rebar down to below the big uprooted tree using an indicator rig with a scud and a SanJuan worm brown colored worm.

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Fished from 2:45 til 6pm...parked down at the lowest access.

Caught plenty of fish below the boat ramp... tried to key in on dry flies .. quite tough. The fish were rising everywhere. Used anything short of 8X tippet.. but this one pattern worked throughout the day.

Tried 7x fluro.. no takes.. 7x mono.. hookups.

sz 18 Daaichi 1190

red thread body

wisp of barred ginger hackle at the tip

like one turn is too many...