Fishing Report March 14th and 15th

[JestersHK]

Made it back down to Bennett this past weekend.

Lots of rain Friday night created some pretty deep murky water, Saturday the weather cleared up mid morning and wasn't to chilly so headed out to the normal spot above the dam to start. Fish were biting pretty good up there early for the first half hour or so as usual. Jigging a black and yellow patterned 1/16oz Maribou with a gold head landed quite a few fish. I switched back to a gold headed olive wooly bugger 1/32 variety with some metallic green in it after the black and yellow died down, caught a few more, and then headed down below the dam. Slowed my jigging down to a really slow rate and retrieve and it seemed to get them biting again.

Fishing was slow. Water was moving really fast due to the rain, and visibility was nill. Mostly fishing by rod tip. There was a ton of debris in the water and about ever other cast I was cleaning jigs off. Walked most of the river minus a few deep parts down to the whistle bridge but only caught one or 2 more.

Sun poked out in the afternoon so I made my way upriver towards the spring. Again fishing was slower than usual. Less debris in the water up there, but it was pretty packed people wise. I finally caught one last keeper and called it a day around 4:30. I caught 14 fish all day which was a bit off my normal marks, but saw allot of fly fisherman having luck drifitng glow balls and white and red midges.

Sunday I had to head back early, so hit the upper dam spot again at the whistle. It was colder than expected, but warmed up pretty quick. Started out with the Olive wooly bugger again and started catching them on my 3rd or 4th cast. Lots of little fish below 12inchers and it took me about 2 hours to limit out.

All in all a good trip. Olive seems to be working very well this time of year. Not much luck on white patterns. When the suns out anything with a gold head gets them biting, and with the water as fast and as deep as it was it was all about finding the right speed and rythm to get them to bite.