FISHING REPORT 4/10/2007

[John Berry]

Fished a couple of clients yesterday at Rim Shoals. Floated early before the water dropped out, No luck. Around ten we motored over to the island and had a good day and caught plenty of fish. It rained on and off all day. The hot flies were green butt, partridge and orange and elk hair caddis. The biggest fish was fifteen. We started with nymphs and caught several on zebra midges. We fished soft hackles before the hatch and switched to elk hairs when we saw fish keying in on the adults (around two o'clock). Insects will hatch in the rain and you can successfully fish them as long as the rain is not too heavy.

[troutchaser]

Do you fish them differently in the rain? Seems to me you might need to skate them to attract attention in all the surface "noise".

[John Berry]

We fished them no differantly than we usually do. It was a fairly light rain and if we got a good drift, we would pick up a fish. The trick was to keep the fly as dry as possible. I kept brushing frog fanny in it to keep it afloat.