roaring river report

[trythisonemv]

Had a great time at rr yesterday! River was full of fish and they were hungry. Threw a mohair leech to start and got one first cast. Then didn't get another so I switched to a mega worm. This worked pretty well for a While. After that switched to jig and float and landed two more. Packed up and moved when jig went cold. Headed to lower end just above zone 3. Here is where the majority came. I put on a muddler minnow and it was on. I swung it from one side of the little falls to the current and got hit every time for about 40 minutes before they got wise. At this point I took a rest from fly fishing and switched to a brown and orange jig. This was a blast! Caught about ten trout all of good size. Biggest went about 2lbs. Then switched back to fly. This time went with the dry bwo and mosquito. Both in size 20 and 22. This was a fun switch. They really like the mosquito until a big one destroyed. Swithed to bwo and took several more off the current edges. Allin all a good day despite the cold

[Jeff Tief]

Fished the opener at Roaring and had a good time.Struggled to make it to the cabin as one of our group had some technical problems at home Saturday and was late departing.That threw us behind the big traffic wreck around MP80.Course if we would have left as scheduled we might have been in the middle of it.The fishing was good with a small group all day long.We ended up catching 8 fish in the 18-22 inch range but nothing over 5#.I had a shot at a big rainbow while wading and 2 of the guys misfired on a bigger rainbow in the twin falls hole. Didn't seem to be any bigger crowd on the 2nd and fished the C&R that day by myself.Lots of fish in the riffles.The boys wanted to stay the 3rd night so we did then loaded up and went to BSSP for the 3rd day.Lots of fish caught in the outlets.

[Jeff Tief]

I was fortunate to be at Roaring last October after a flood around the 10-11th of the month.Big fish had escaped from the mill pond and they were pretty abundant.I try to practice C&R on big fish when at all possible so the 3 days wife Susie and I fished ended up catching 11 lunkers. Had one die that I couldn't get going and didn't say much to some of the buddies on the Forum as I was a little embarrased that it happened .Fish was over 10# and 2 of the other fish were bigger that I released.How this ends up being a new fishing report concerns one of the bigger fish.On the opener,one of my fishing buddies was fishing in the twin falls and missed a huge fish .When it rolled he said "I think it was the big fish you turned loose". He is a taxidermist,fly tyer, rod builder,etc.The lad wears more hats and has more on his plate than most.The 2nd day of March ,his uncle Danny who has been a fishing buddy for 30 years had the same moment.He didn't get enough hook in this monster fish but saw it clearly and again said I think it was the big fish you released.This Thursday,my older brother "Toofer" is at Roaring with his son-in-law and the boy's Dad for the latter 2 first time at the Park.Older brother who fishes well but hasn't fly fished much until last year got into some big fish.His voicemail was priceless "Saw 5 lunkers and the first one took a swipe at the fly and missed-the 2nd one he didn't get enough hook in and it throwed the hook and the last one was a great big rainbow".He described the short but exciting battle as the fish made 3 long runs and had wallowed on the surface before it made one last attempt and broke his line.I asked how big and he said biggest he had ever hooked.Sent him a picture of the biggest one I had released from that area and he said "I think it was the same fish".That one fish if it is the same fish is sure getting a lot of mileage and has created some wonderful memories for some of my family and friends.Don't have a clue if it is the same fish .Know it was still swimming when I left Roaring in October and wasn't caught opening day.Tim said a young man did kill a huge rainbow in the winter C&R so that could be the fish or it could still be swimming.