Fishing report - whooohooo

[jscheetz]

I got to sneak out and get on the water yesterday. Fishing was great! Got there at 11am and water was fairly low. So lots of people.

Went from rebar down to Big hole and caught fish most of the way. Did the best on a black zebra midge, 2 feet under an indicator. Caught about 15 from one spot while the wind was up. When the wind was blowing it was a fish on every cast - when the wind stopped it was 1 every 10 casts or so. wind = good

I stripped some soft hackles and caught quite a few on those - then stripped a big white wooly bugger in the big hole and caught a nice brown. Was catching quite a few bows that way, but after I broke off a couple I realized I still had 6x tippet on and maybe I should switch to something heavier for the big woolies - so I put on some 5x and could not get bit! Went back to 6x and there they were again. I've had that happen a lot when using dries or dead drifting midges, but they never have seemed so particular when stripping woolies - so - good lesson - don't always look to change your fly first, maybe it's your tippet if you are not catching any. If I would have started there with 5x I would have just thought they weren't biting.

I did wander down to the flats later and that was fun - as long as the wind was choppng the water a bit I could catch them on dries - mostly a #14 orange stimulator - if they didn't hit it right when it landed I would just move it a bit and that seemed to entice them.

All in all another great day at Taney. Caught dozens of trout with several different methods - not a lot of places you can do that! Is it just me or does it seem like there is always a lot more people down there than there was just a few years ago? I've only been a couple of times this year but both times were during the week and both times it was wall to wall fishermen? Maybe you guys who have been fishing it regularly for years could say more accurately if the amount of anglers is really up. Never the less - great fishing!

JS