Fishing Report

[Don]

Fished RR because of it has been so crowded on Taney on weekends. Fished from 1:30 till the horn blew at 4:00. Fished from the road to the wading area. caught five off a gray ostrich scud. When it broke off, I tried several other scuds and zebra midges resulting in a few strikes but nothing to the net. Then tried a prototype crackleback with green sparkle braid body and grizzly hackle - nothing. Then tried olive mohair leech and caught one. Then caught five on black rabbit tail leech with black disco yarn body. Then caught four more on gold rabbit tail leech with brown barred schlappen hackled body. Last fish was 16 inches and fat. My friend Kevin had arrived earlier and caught twice as many fish than I did, mostly on a variety of scuds.

I noticed that all the big trees were cut down in the fly zone camping area. Those spots had limited shade and those trees were big and beautiful. Does anybody know the reason they were cut down?

Don

[Steve Smith]

Don; those trees were dead or dying sycamores. The park folks said they were afraid some one would get hurt if they didn't cut them down. We did really well on orange and chartreuse San Juan worms, ginger bead-head woolies, and golden badger big uglies.