Fishing Report 7/6

[Rainstein]

Got in a few hours with the fly rod this morning and afternoon below the dam. Fished from the access at the turnaround by the newer campground. Caught nothing on a "Prince of Buggers" (yellow bead head, gold flecked) I got at the dam store on the way in, thinking I would have some luck with a brightly colored streamer as I did last time. I was totally wrong. Water was almost at a standstill at about 11:00 AM, with Table Rock not generating at all and backing up into the Beaver tailwater. There was really hardly any flow at all, so was hard to get a good drift going. And the water was so crystal clear the fish could see anything I put in the water coming a mile away, and had all the time in the world to decide it wasn't food before the slow drift brought it anywhere near. Eventually, about 12:00 or 12:30, it seemed like Table Rock must have started generating, because the drift piked up a little bit (without Beaver generating), and I switched to a smaller fly, a bead head, with a swept white wing and a short red-brown tail, black body wound with shiny green, about a size 16 or so. Caught only two 12 inch or so rainbows, but, though fishing was slow, was all in all a very nice day to be on the water. Generation started at 2:20 or so, so it cut me short just as was starting to catch 'em.

[JonT]

Thanks for the report. I was wondering how the July fishing was doing. thx