Opening Weekend

[JestersHK]

Got down mid day Friday.  Hit the water around noon.  Caught 15 on a mix of jigs, and landed 3 on top water in the afternoon with a floating ant pattern.

John Deer seems to be the go to color.  Worked yesterday and today.  Fishing with my cuz FMCBrandon and his 2 boys.  They were tearing them up this morning on yellow and red, and then olive jigs up by the dam.  

Landed 8 this morning, and one 14 inch brown but man he was skinny...

Lots of perch in the steam too.  Water is a bit stained, but fishings been OK.  Not as crowded either as I thought it would be.

Hopefully Brandon will throw some pics up...

[JestersHK]

Great weathered today despite the wind.  Knew it would be windy and was expecting the worst, but it was manageable.  Slow day for me here.  Brought 25 to hand, over half of those were on top water though so that made the afternoon fun.  

Fished an ant pattern, don't think it was what they wanted but stuck with it and caught a few nice ones.  

The boys both hit there limits and caught fish here and there so that's really all we wanted fit this trip

Saw allot of nice size fish in the stream, and on the stringers. 

 

[NoLuck]

I've been here since Tuesday afternoon.  I didn't fish at the whistle Wednesday but I fished about 12:30 till 4:30 and did OK. There's a ton of moss or algae being kicked up by people wading in places that got grown up over the winter.  The wind has been a nuisance the last few days.  But as long as you keep your casts short and keep at them you can catch fish. I was kinda hoping for a little colder weather and smaller crowds personally. But it's all good.  Fish sizes are kinda mixed. But I have seen some nice ones.  

[JestersHK]

Yeah the moss was pretty bad in places...  Hoping it gets flushed out.  Worse was the trash... I always pick up trash, but this year my pouch on my waders was full before I even got down to the bluff wall...  I'm sure the wind didn't help, but man never seen so much trash in the water.

Picked up around a dozen or so more rainbows this morning, before we headed out.  Fished a red zebra midge, weighted silver bead head with silver wrap.  Caught a real nice one down at the outlet and a few more after that.  Tried top water again with no luck today, and the rest came on John deer patterned jigs on  the buggy whip.

I normally stick to sculpin patterns and earth tones for my jigs, never usually throw the crazy combos, but yellow and bright green worked great this weekend between the four of us.

Water again was stained, but we still used 2lb Maxima, and 2lb vanish for line. 

 

 

[Johnsfolly]

23 hours ago, JestersHK said:

Slow day for me here.  Brought 25 to hand, over half of those were on top water though so that made the afternoon fun.  

Fished an ant pattern, don't think it was what they wanted but stuck with it and caught a few nice ones.  

The boys both hit there limits and caught fish here and there so that's really all we wanted fit this trip

Sounds like you guys are having a great time! We have been hitting the local crappie pretty hard. You got me thinking about some park fishing! May have to get down there sometime soon. Keep up the reports as long as you are down at the park! Only thing missing are the photos!

[NoLuck]

First pic was of the crowd at the horn. The second pic was of a guy fishing while wet wading wearing flip flops.  ? It was about 44 degrees at the horn.  

[fshndoug]

That guy is either a man or stupid.Could be a movie star or pro athlete for that matter.