Need Advice For 6/14 - 6/17

[stinger160]

Great trip!!!

Thanks for all the tips. Here's the details. Water conditions perfect according to all we talked to. No 6 pats was the best all around fly. Both black and brown. Two or three split shot under an indicator drifted through water 3 - 6 feet deep. Fished five hours Saturday 12 fish, best 15 inches. Sunday about the same, mix of rainbows, browns and smallies. Just did a short kayak trip Monday morning, no fishing.

Big confidence boost, casting very consistent with a little practice, only had one monster snarl ( 10 feet of leader, flies and split shot all in the space of an inch or two). We have a special name for these that I probably shouldn't use here but some of you might know, starts with cluster and ends you know where.

Thanks again!

[Ham]

With age, my eyesight and patience for dealing with big huge mult-fly ,leader, tippet fubars has declined. I start cutting that stuff off pretty soon these days. Really eats into your fishing time re-rigging.

[Ham]

YEP, in that higher flow, little junk seems to gets lost.I throw Zig Jigs and get bit early and often, but two units on the Norfork is like 6 units on the White. I wish they would run a soft one unit more like arpound a 1000 CFS. The area I saw y'all in is great o n an easy 1 unit.

i really don't care for fly fishing from a boat much. It's better than not fishing, but I want to be wading when fly fishing. I'll use a yak as a water taxi. I'm gonna give em a beat down using the yak to access less pressured water IF we ever get minimal flow this summer. That'll be a fly rod deal.

[Gavin]

I agree...Fishing solo in any watercraft would not be fun at that level. Figure we were lucky to catch anything at all. I tossed a suspending jerkbait off and on but nada, probably not deep enough. In hind sight, I probably shoulda tried a swimming a hair jig. Fun rollercoaster ride though. We spent the rest of the weekend kid fishing over on Dry Run and they cant wait to go back.

[Chris Gates]

Thanks for the report. Wrap that Pats with .35 lead from end to end and you can forget about the split shot. That's the beauty of a heavy pats, its the best split shot ever. Typically in summer my droppers are green caddis pupa, pheasant tails, and UV Brown Guide Hackles.

[stinger160]

Good suggestion. I thought about that but wondered if it is best to let the pats float a little above the split shot, like a nymph that breaks loose from the bottom. Anyway, did pretty good and not many tangles.