Fishing Good At Roaring River Today

[timsfly]

Had a great morning fishing on Roaring River today, the river is in great shape,

water is running at a normal flow and is clear, making for some great fly and

spin fishing, I'm still using 6X tippet on my fly rod when using nymphs or buggers, and

I'm using 7X when fishing dry flies.

My best fly this morning, early was a black woolybugger, I landed 12 on a #8 bugger,

and after the bugger bite slowed, I put on a green/grizzly crackleback and landed 8 more

rainbows. About 11:00 the blue wing olives started hatching and it was pure fun, a #20

blue wing olive drew a strike on almost every cast for an hour or so, I think I landed

another 12 on the B.W.O. and then I put a small #16 caddis on and it worked very well for

an hour or so, then it slowed down, by this time I was ready to quit, and I did.

Good flies to use right now are #14-#22 adams, #14-#22 blue wing olives, #14-#20 caddis

zebra midges #18's and smaller, pheasant tails, copper johns, burlaps, sow bugs and

hares ears all #14's and smaller.

I used a 9' leader this morning on my 7' 4wt bamboo rod, the 4 wt was needed because

of the wind, I would like to have had my 2 wt out, but to windy.

I know the black, brown, and the olive roostertails have been working well, as have the

small colorado woolie spinner combos, I have had a lot of good reports on orange, white, and

flo. yellow power eggs, power bait has a lot of new eggs out this year and a few of them look

good.

Plastic worms in orange, cheese, pink, and orange peal were good all last week and unless

we get a water change these colors should remain good.

Marabou jig fishing is a lot of fun right now, you can really see the fish and it makes for some

good sight fishing.

On a spin or casting reel, you will need 2 or 3 lb line, p-line, maxima, or mean green will work

well, avoid flourecent lines like tri-lene and stren.

Still using #10 hooks on the worms and #12 and smaller for the plastic eggs. 3/0 and BB sized

sinkers will work best for you right now.

Zone 3 is fishing good on powerbait paste, white has been good and orange has been working

also corn, nightcrawlers and natural eggs have been working.

Good luck on the river, fishing has been great.

[Sportingclays Larry]

Sounds like a great report, I dove 6 hrs yesterday (from Tx to Ok) to fish Lower Mountain Fork, they have not stocked in 3 1/2 weeks, still caught about a dozen but ya had to be on your game. Sure makes me appreciate what a great fishery RR continues to be year in and year out. Thanks for the report Tim.

[trythisonemv]

Tim,

I am new to the whole world that is fly fishing and i wanted to tell you that your advice as well as a kind couple of guys on the roaring river know what you are talking about!!! i went out yesterday with my fly rod and some mild anxiety for having never been to roaring river and having only used my flyrod to land one trout. I arrived around 730am at your fly shop only to see you werent yet open. So i headed on down to purchase a tag from the store. I noticed they had a decent selection of flys and i recalled your report on what was working the best and made a purchase. I picked up three B.W.O. , an adams, and a wooly bugger(black). i then headed to the picnic area across the street for i had no clue where to go. I played down there for about an hour without luck and one lost bwo. i had a few strikes but no takers. I decided i was in the wrong place and i headed to zone three to spin cast and get my bearings. i caught three nice rainbows on a black rooster tail and three small on orange power egss. this was great but i felt defeated on the fly rod. So i headed back to the picnic area where i ran into a guy catching a rainbow every other cast. i asked him what he was using and he said crackleback and we had a nice conversation. i tried a crackle down the stream a ways and caught one right off the batt. i recalled that it was one of the flies you had recommended and i had renewed faith in my skills so i headed down below the big bridge in the catch and release zone. i tied on a bwo and fun ensued. Caught about 25 in a hundred yard area. thanks for the advice and i am a roaring river fan for good now. Fly fishing was everything i was hoping it could be for me!!

[Greasy B]

Good report, glad it worked out so well for you.

[mic]

Thanks for the report.

[bassman1308]

Tuesday,my wife and I made our first official trout fishing trip to RR since the early 60's. She doesn't fish but enjoyed the day, reading her I-pad, walking the dog, and just relaxing. It was a nice day after this long winter. I had planned to explore the park waters more than I did but after a slow start, the catching picked up. I was fishing upstream from a young couple and their friend from the Joplin area. Every time I looked their way, at least one had a fish on. They invited me to join in their spot but I didn't feel right butting in on them. They went to eat and insisted I take over so I did. I ended up catching 15 or so before they return and joined in . I truly enjoyed catching fish and combined with the generosity of these people, it made for a great day. Can't wait to return. I'd like to give a big thank you to Steve, Jeff and his wife Stephanie.

JC

[rps]

Tim,

Thank you for starting this post. The people who posted made the threaad a feel good thing.

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[timsfly]

That is one of the things that makes this forum so good, it's all the good people on the forum.

Everybody helping everybody, is a good thing.

[rumrunner]

tim, i hope this isn't to dumb of a question.i'm wanting to tie up some flies.for the adams, blue wing olives and caddis is it just standard colors?