Sammy
07-26-2012, 10:06 AM
Fished it over the weekend. Water was much lower than what i'm use to. Always a challenge, as the usual holes typically don't fish the same way or simply aren't worth fishing. The water was extremely clear below Beardsley. A deep, green clear. Sight fishing would have been awesome, but there wasn't many fish to be seen except for some of the smaller, less aware fish.
Friday evening we through little drie flies and caught little rising fish. Eventually I found a run that had some deeper water. Tied on a two fly nymphing rig under an indicator. A few casts in and I hooked a freight train of a fish. Caught me completely off guard and quickly snapped my fresh 5x tippet. ah well... gave us hope for the weekend.
Saturday we fished a spot I thought would be better with the low flows. It was. Nymphed it pretty much all day. Trading off on this large riffle with my buddy. Broke off a few more big ones, but was able to land around 15 fish ranging between 10 and 17 inches. I couldn't tell you what type of fly was hot, but it was small #22, and somewhat resembled a flashback pheasant tail. (which probably would have worked also)
The next morning, at the same area, they were all about my size 14 prince nymph and wanted nothing to do with the fly that had worked so well the day before. Go figure. Sunday died off as the weather warmed up. In fact it was quite hot all weekend at about 3000 ft elevation.
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m184/samcantread/DSC00981.jpg
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m184/samcantread/DSC00983.jpg
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m184/samcantread/DSC00987.jpg
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m184/samcantread/DSC01001.jpg
Friday evening we through little drie flies and caught little rising fish. Eventually I found a run that had some deeper water. Tied on a two fly nymphing rig under an indicator. A few casts in and I hooked a freight train of a fish. Caught me completely off guard and quickly snapped my fresh 5x tippet. ah well... gave us hope for the weekend.
Saturday we fished a spot I thought would be better with the low flows. It was. Nymphed it pretty much all day. Trading off on this large riffle with my buddy. Broke off a few more big ones, but was able to land around 15 fish ranging between 10 and 17 inches. I couldn't tell you what type of fly was hot, but it was small #22, and somewhat resembled a flashback pheasant tail. (which probably would have worked also)
The next morning, at the same area, they were all about my size 14 prince nymph and wanted nothing to do with the fly that had worked so well the day before. Go figure. Sunday died off as the weather warmed up. In fact it was quite hot all weekend at about 3000 ft elevation.
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m184/samcantread/DSC00981.jpg
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m184/samcantread/DSC00983.jpg
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m184/samcantread/DSC00987.jpg
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m184/samcantread/DSC01001.jpg