Fishing Report for Below Fall Creek Needed

[Leitsout]

I'm headed down Fri 10th - Sun 12th, and hope someone can offer a fishing report for below fall creek. I will be camping at the City Park and feel safe boating up as far as Fall Creek.

Any report will help.

Thanks,

Brian

[vince]

There have been a lot of surfacing fish frome the bridges down to Roark. Try fishing a bead head midge 16" below a indicator or a micro jig under an indicator. We did well Sat moring

[Phil Lilley]

Vince is right. Around monkey island has been hot. Jig under a float 3-5 feet deep using an olive, brown, black, pink or ginger 1/100th oz jig. 2-4 lb line but 2 is better. Casting rooster tails (brown, white, pink) and cleos in silver or gold. Power eggs using a white egg and either an orange or pink with the white and again using 2 pound line better than 4 pound.

[MOBass]

Phil

Do you have the floats and jigs at the resort and can I tie up at your dock to pick them up if you do?

Thanks and sorry about hijacking the post.

[Phil Lilley]

Yea- have jigs and floats in the shop. Open at 7 am and close at 6 pm.

[Thom]

I fished last week below fall creek and did very well on #16 copper tung head zebra midge olive thread and copper wrap for the ribbing. I used a 1/100 hot pink maribow jig fished about 12 inches above the midge. I fished that combo about 18inches below the smallest float that would ride the tough wind that was on the water last week. I would catch fish on both flies.

Watch for the fish feeding on top and fish 18" below the if they are breaking water. If not action was happening on top go deeper. If that didn't produce fish I fished deeper up to 6 foot and would catch fish until they started feeding on top as shallow as 12 inches.

Good areas that I had success on was in front of the condos above short creek. Below short creek on the side opposite the docks in about 6 foot of water and in the shallows strait out from short creek. I found that switching to another fly occasionly (eg # 16 grey or olive hairs ear or even an egg fly (charatruse with a red dot or pink, salmon or multicolored) would also pick up the bite for a short time if the trout werent midging.

I used 6x rio leader but there was a good chop on the water most of the time.

If the water is not moving and no chop on the water be sure to try to drop the ling and float as gently on the water as possible. It is not necessary to make super long cast especially at the expense of slapping the water.

Even with the tough conditions and only one day of 1 hr water flow I managed to catch 20 to 25 fish each morning in 2 to 3 hours out.