First Weekend Of C&r At Roaring River

[timsfly]

Fishing was great this week, the weather was great for the start of the C&R season, the wind was the biggest problem, the

fish were very eager to bite on friday and saturday, sunday was a bit slower, but monday the weather was near perfect and

the dry fly fishing was fantastic, we caught lots of trout on Blue Wing Olives, RS2's, parachute adams and small griffiths gnats

most of the dries I fished yesterday were size 20's and smaller, 7X tippet and 9' leaders, I didn't even try for any big fish

yesterday, they needed a rest, and the dry fly fishing was just that good.

I'll bet I landed 40 + trout yesterday on my one weight and small dries.

Friday, I fished san juan worms, glo balls, bigger buggers and some streamers and did very well, I had 7 trout on friday that

were over 4lbs, a couple going close to 7, there are a nice number of big fish in the river, MDC stocked 150 lunkers and 1200

regular sized rainbows, 12-15" so fishing was great, on saturday the fishing slowed a bit for me, but I talked to several fisherman

that were doing very well on small copper johns and pheasant tail nymphs, and very small egg patterns.

I know a few guys did very well on fri and sat fishing a hopper with a small pheasant tail as a dropper, and I talked to one guy

who swore he had over 50 trout on saturday on a brown #24 zebra midge, I watched him hook 6, but he never got one all the

way in, but he was sure hooking them.

I caught 4 saturday that were over 20" and sunday I only caught 2 over 20" but there are so many nice fish in the river, it was

very good fishing.

Come down and take advantage of the great fishing on the weekends, we fish fri-monday 8:00-4:00

[ruthead]

Do hooks have to be barbless? I have starting smashing the barbs on a lot of my flies but not all. Are most useing barbless now?

[timsfly]

You don't have to use barbless, I do it is just easier. A lot of fisherman do use barbless, year round now.

[Trout Newb]

Likely a dumb question, but this dummy needs clarification -

Do you need to have MO trout tag / stamp to fish during the catch and release season, or do you just need to buy a daily tag at the park store?

[timsfly]

Just the yearly trout stamp during the C&R season

[ruthead]

Tim, how were u fishing the san juas worms? Haven't used them much.

[timsfly]

Caught a lot on the San Juans this weekend, I'm sight fishing them mostly, with little

or no weight.

I'm fishing them on a 9' 6X leader most of the time.

[ruthead]

OK Thanks. Hope to have a good day Friday. Maybe we'll see ya there.