2-23 Report

[BruteFish83]

I was on the river at about seven this morning. The weather was in the low 40s and humid with a heavy cloud cover that lasted much of the morning. I started off with an articulated streamer pattern that I came up with but couldn't get any takes. I switched to a #16 copper john which paid off with a nice rainbow after nymphing it through some fast water. I was tempted to switch to a dry as there was heavy top water action occurring. I stuck with nymphs because they seemed to also be working well and I typically take larger fish on them as opposed to dry flies. The fly of the day ended up being the San Juan worm after taking three nice browns on it. The first one pictured was pushing 21" and was only on the ground for a few seconds before I released it. I had no other way to get a pic because there was knee deep water up to the bank and the fish wasn't staying in my net.

[brittsnbirds]

Thanks, give me the itch. Do you tie your own SJW's? What pattern? Where on the Current were you?

NICE PICS. Love the brown trout porn!!

[Fly guy]

Nice fish I went down to tan vat saturday and hooked up with a few browns and a couple of rainbows as well. red midge and elk hair caddis is what worked for me couldn't get the SJW to take how did you rig it?

[Geoff]

Nice!! I gotta get down with some buddies in March. That settles it.

[BruteFish83]

Thanks man. Glad you like the pics.

Yes, I tie all of my own flies. The SJW was just fire orange chenille tied on a #16 scud hook. I was fishing near Tan Vat.

[BruteFish83]

Nice fish I went down to tan vat saturday and hooked up with a few browns and a couple of rainbows as well. red midge and elk hair caddis is what worked for me couldn't get the SJW to take how did you rig it?

Thanks. I just put on a .01 gram split shot a few inches up from the fly.

[salmotrutta]

Nice Brown Sir.

[mic]

Nice... Thanks for the pics. Made my day.