Fishing Report

[Phil Lilley]

Wanted to get serious about fishing this morning after all the talk about slow fishing. Boated up to Andy's house about 8:30 am and started with a couple of scuds #16 and #18 in brown (mink) and gray. Using 6x fl. tippet and setting the indicator deep- about 6 feet- but only fishing 2-3 feet of water. Wanted to make sure the scuds were dragging the bottom. No wind. No current. I had to move the flies every 10 seconds of so to attract attention. The takes were very subtle and I probably missed a bunch but did land 4-5 rainbows. Really wanted to try casting dries along the bluff bank although nothing was active on the surface. Tried a #8 stimulator- nothing. #10 red humpy- nothing.

Change to midge fishing on the shallow side. About 9:30 am midge starting hatching and the trout responded. Most of the acivity was on the shallow side but I wasn't doing well using zebras so I tied on an olive #22 biot midge which I thought was the wrong color. It was a very light olive. 7x fl tipet and a half palsa 6 inches above the fly. The rainbows loved it. I had tied on about 20 foot of leader so not to spook the trout, since they were in less than 12 inches of water. It all worked, even with no wind. Caught about a dozen nice rainbows before calling it quits about 11 am. They were still midging good when I left. Trout fought good and hard.

Trees are beatuiful right now...

Here is a couple of pics from a couple of weeks ago at #2. Water was coming on at the time. Looks like a convention!

[flyman]

Cool. Thanks for the report. I'm taking a friend down tomorrow morning who has not fished in a while. Hopefully the fish are biting for us. I want to show him a good time. Sounds like patience and a low profile is the key. Probably a lot of fall pressure on them. Did you by chance try any egg patterns this trip? Just wondering if I should tie a few of those for tomorrow.

[MOBass]

That shot of outlet 2 looks like full blown combat fishing. Even getting away from the outlets there was still a good crowd this past weekend. I can't wait for cooler weather, deer season, and football to thin the herd a little.

[Phil Lilley]

No eggs- no fish spawning in this area. Not much pressure either- only 3 other boats in sight all morning.

[David Bolin]

Midging has been very good in the shallow water between fall creek and the KOA for two days in a row(#20 brown/olive on 200R with nickel bead head). Fished yesterday afternoon and several hours today. Caught a bunch and missed a bunch trying to steer the boat. Will be back out there in the morning. You guys have a great fishery up here!

db

[Phil Lilley]

That shot of outlet 2 looks like full blown combat fishing.

Most of those guys were just talking and didn't fish, including me. Almost all of them cleared out in less than 30 minutes.