Ackerman Access 9-10

[netboy]

Rolled the dice and made a trip to the Norfork this morning. It has been a crap shoot on water levels over there the last couple of months. They run water through the flood gates and sluice gates for 4 or 5 days and then shut down to minimum flow for a day or two with no set schedule. Fortunately, it was a minimum flow day today and fishing was good. I had some decent dry fly fishing for an hour or so when some small tan mayflies started coming up. When that stopped, I had good luck on eggs and scuds. Ended the morning with around 30ish including a few nice ones. I lost the biggest fish of the morning to a leader to tippet knot failure after a 10-minute fight.

Here is one of the better rainbows....

 

 

[Phil Lilley]

Thanks for sharing.  Never gets old.... admiring how beautiful trout are.

[mikeak]

THANKS

 

[netboy]

2 hours ago, Phil Lilley said:

Thanks for sharing.  Never gets old.... admiring how beautiful trout are.

The ones that have been in the river for some time have much better colors. The brookies are my favorite. 

With that said, I did see a poacher this morning on the gravel bar just below the first island. As I got closer he got very nervous and grabbed his stringer of fish and hightailed it. When I walked up to where he was fishing I saw his ziplock bag of shrimp that he forgot as well as a container of nightcrawlers. As far as I am concerned, a poacher is as bad as a common thief.