6-16-17 3:45-5:00pm

[Seth]

Dad had to drop his boat off at Troutt and Sons to have some maintenance done on his motor so we decided to shoot on down to the Springs afterwards. The Pond Hole was empty so we started there and stayed there the entire time. We both threw wacky rigged orange trout worms and caught 13 between us. Dad caught four and I caught nine. They were all 12-13" and worth cleaning. While cleaning our fish, another guy came up and had three that were all probably 1.75-2#. He said that he had caught a 5 3/4# rainbow earlier in the day and also had another lunker the day before. Ron who works down there told us that the fishing was better down by the second cleaning station, but we didn't mess with going down there to check it out since they were biting fairly well where we were at.

[Haris122]

I went down there last Tuesday along with MikeH, and did ok. Probably the biggest thing of note, was that I caught my first fish fly fishing, thanks to Mike's tutelage. He got the fly rod ready and all, and I'd just cast it around, eventually getting a 10 or 11" Brown Trout on it a bit downstream from the bathrooms on one of the flies he set up. After some more time casting it out without further bites, I switched over to my usual light action combo and slowly accumulated 4 Rainbows over the span of the day. It was kind of weird to switch back fishing with regular gear, after the fly rod. Of the remaining 4, 2 smaller ones I caught cycling through a variety of stickbaits, another one that was ~13" I got on a black and grey 1/16 roostertail, and best one, maybe a 16" or 17", I got on a little blue/silver kastmaster type spoon near where the two spring arms meet back up, past the island. We just did catch and release. That big one was a real good fight actually, best in quite a while that I caught inside the park, and I'm kind of surprised it didn't manage to throw the hook before I got it in. I also lost another 13" or so Brown Trout on one of the stickbaits, close to net. Mike had some better luck fly fishing, but in the end it was kind of slow but gradual going for both of us. Water actually seemed a little down in the park that day as well. One of these days I'm going to go down there just to fish for the suckers there.

[bkbying89]

Harris, you better watch out. That fly fishing can get into you. You will not want to fish any other way.

[Seth]

I've looked at my fly rod case the past few times I've headed down there and then didn't mess with it. I really need to get back in to it one of these days. Maybe next month when I head down to Taneycomo, I will break it out again.

[Haris122]

2 hours ago, bkbying89 said:

Harris, you better watch out. That fly fishing can get into you. You will not want to fish any other way.

Yeah I can see what you mean. It definitely feels like a little more direct of a connection to the fish than regular rod and reel.