Sunday Fishing

[ollie]

Great day indeed for fishing! Saw 3 hawks and 2 bald eagles on the trip down this morning for what must have been good luck. Arrived about 8:30 and instead of fishing down at the 3rd zone, like I normally do, I decided to pull in by the cleaning station and start there at the hole before the C&R area. Not much luck for the first few minutes and had one guy ask me if I was "tearing them up" and I just laughed and said no because things were going slow. Changed colors several times and ended up throwing an olive color and caught one small dink so I stuck with the color. Moved up a couple of holes and threw into the foam at the top of the run and WHAM! A nice 16" or 17" finally came to hand. Wow, that was cool, so I fished a little more in that hole and nothing more. Not even a strike, but some lookers so again I stayed with the same jig. Moved to another hole and casted right into the foam again. You guessed it, I hooked into a nice fish again. The guy I was talking to earlier helped me with a net on this one because I needed it! This fish was right around 20" maybe 19" and fought hard and long. After releasing her ( although I had to revive this one for awhile ) I thanked him and told him "I'm tearing them up now"! What a day. Already 45 minutes into the day and I had landed 2 nice fish. I was pumped now. I moved on to several other holes though and didn't have any more success. Lost the "killer" jig and of course that was my last of that color with me. Went on up to the outlets and kept switching colors until I started catching some fish again. Ginger was the ticket this time. Normally I don't like ginger, only because it has never really produced for me. Until now that is. Wind had picked-up and it had started to get cooler out I thought. Went up to the hole between the road and the first outlet or the first hole and started to fish it. Got quite a few looks, but no real takers. Then I saw a nice big fish out in the middle of the pool. The wind started to chop the water and I threw out right in front of her. I no more than started to jig or swim the jig right in front of her and she slammed it! Another big fish right at the 20" mark for the day. By now I was STOKED! Went and ate and by now was about ready to leave although I wanted to fish some more. Headed down to the 3rd zone and fished some more. Never really caught anymore fish except one. Another large fish around the 18" mark this time. All together I only caught six fish, but four were over 16". All in all it was a seeewwweeettt fishing day!

[Kansas Fly Fisher]

Sounds great. My son and I are headed down as soon as I get off here. I'll let you know of the streak continues.

John