Fishing Report

[Phil Lilley]

Drove to the dam with Tom Johnson about 11:30 am for alittle fishing. Walked down below rebar and fished the narrows till 2 pm. Water level seemed to be alittle low. Was an intermittened breeze from the west, downstream.

We started with small scuds but quickly switched to #16 black or red soft hackles and had strikes on almost every cast for quite a awhile. Soft hackles were new to Tom and he was having trouble keeping them on the hook. I told him not to set the hook- just hold it and lift the rod slowly, applying pressure. He did better once he got the hang of it. All rainbows and not much size.

I switched to a scud again- nothing. So went to a red san juan and had hookups immediately. Broke off a couple of reds- then went to brown and did even better. Rainbows were larger than on the soft hackle.

Nice day- glad we went. Tom is Scrooge in the Christmas Carol production at SDC and has one more week before he's off for the winter. We've already decided to make it a weekly ritual... fly fishing someplace.

This is what it'd look like if you had a camera on yor boot.

[Don]

The caption on the last pic must be "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thanks for catch and release."

Don May