Lir 01-27-2013 Report

[BFTMASTER]

Fishing was good from daylight till about 9:00. They blew the horns and actually started to run some pretty heavy water. Enough to get out of the river. Early the fish were hitting black midges with black glass bead head. Even though it was overcast, the chrome head was 2nd favorite. Had a couple really nice fish on, but no land. Not as many people as I have seen in the past months, mainly Power Bait crowd. Shut water off around 11-11:30. Fish did not bite well in between opening and closing. Once the river settled down, the fish started feeding again.

[On The Fly 6]

I also fished on the 27th. Got nothing on the midges that had worked the week before, so I switched to the hair and copper and started picking up fish consistently. I was about half a mile down from watts fishing in a deeper pool. The water was still dropping in that area when I first arrived. There was a hatch around 2:30-3:00 that got a lot of the fish active, but I didn't have anything with me that looked like what they were eating. It was pretty small too, probably around a 24-26. I tried several other flies but, they didn't seem interested. Weather wasn't too bad either, so that was also a plus!