Fishing Report

[Jeremy Hunt]

Fished Roaring River yesterday and I must say it was nice to fish the whole park with not many people there. They had a little rain which made fishing better than the previous weeks. I started fishing eggs, but switched immediately over to dries when I noticed how much activity was on the surface. I didn’t have but one dry fly on me because I left all my dries at home. I had a little elk hair caddis hanging out in my tach it fly box so I tied it on. It was a size 16 with a ginger body, ginger hackle and the wing was natural elk. It worked really well until I lost it after catching about ten fish. I saw Tim and had asked him if he had any caddis because I left all my dries at home. He was nice enough to give me a couple. I’m glad he did because without those I would’ve been out of the game. They seem to work as well as the one I lost. The only difference was the body was black and they seem to want a 16 vs. an 18. I didn’t fish anything else because the bite was so good fishing dries. Who would want to switch over from fishing a dry? Not me when you fish tail waters that really don’t have true hatches except midges. It’s always nice to see fish rise to dries. And to see these trout go crazy on dries the way they did today makes me want to go back for more.

Tim, I know you will read this so I just wanted to say thank you again for going out of your way to bring me back some flies from your shop. It sure helped our day.

Fish of the day was this nice brown caught on a Elk Hair Caddis

[Steve Smith]

Jeremy; I too noticed the fish went a little cold on the eggs, but I still had several takers. Just not as well as in past weekend of fishing. I have been using micro eggs size 22-20, but when I moved up to a size 16, they started taking again... not a clue why. I was thinking the same as you on the elk hair caddis. There was an absolute swarm that hatched Saturday afternoon in the sunshine and warm temperatures. One of the biggest hatches I have ever witnessed at Roaring River. I also noticed that there were tiny dark midges on my hand off a couple of fish in about a size 28 - 32. I am severely colorblind, so I can’t tell you what color, but they were dark and tiny. I tied on the smallest thread midge I had in my box, and they would not touch it. That doesn’t mean I was using the right depth, and they may have not been midging in the holes I fished. Very good report.