Wednesday Caster
10-01-2005, 05:37 PM
REPORT- Part 1: American River
As per my scheduled itinerary, I got my waders wet at 7 am on the American. I walked about 1/2 mile of the Sunrise parking lot on the north side of the river and found a section that had a nice gravel bar that reached out more than half way across the river. I entered gently into the eddy created by this bar and casted around 20 times covering most of the back eddy all the way out to the flow in the middle of the river but found no fins intererested in the pheasant tail and green butt skunk I tied (a new venture into this sport). I know this sounds like a very odd combo but my fishing this day was to try out only flies I tied which were limited to PT, GBS and hares ear.
As learned from my normal small creek fishing, I had expected a fish or two may be at the end of the fast water created by the bottle necking of the gravel bar and I switched the GBS to my only alternative the hares ear and casted upstream letting drift. I must have casted another 20-30 casts, switched back to the GBS and a different PT and casted another 30 times and then swithched back to another hare's ear type of fly tied with of all things scrap of material of flash and bunched up fuzzy goodies I had scatterd around my table top. Well those scraps resulted in the only "bump" I had for the day. I was so surprised when it came that I did not even react until I was the only "jerk" left at the other end of the line. When I retrieved this psychodelic Hares Ear tied, there was a little noticeable damage left to the tail end of the fly.
This may not sound too exciting of a day for most of you but I was elated that I created interest from a fly that I personally created and in waters I have fished twice this year without a grab, bump, nudge of even a passing glance.
So I was very happy with an outing of 0 and 1 on the American. :) :) :)
As per my scheduled itinerary, I got my waders wet at 7 am on the American. I walked about 1/2 mile of the Sunrise parking lot on the north side of the river and found a section that had a nice gravel bar that reached out more than half way across the river. I entered gently into the eddy created by this bar and casted around 20 times covering most of the back eddy all the way out to the flow in the middle of the river but found no fins intererested in the pheasant tail and green butt skunk I tied (a new venture into this sport). I know this sounds like a very odd combo but my fishing this day was to try out only flies I tied which were limited to PT, GBS and hares ear.
As learned from my normal small creek fishing, I had expected a fish or two may be at the end of the fast water created by the bottle necking of the gravel bar and I switched the GBS to my only alternative the hares ear and casted upstream letting drift. I must have casted another 20-30 casts, switched back to the GBS and a different PT and casted another 30 times and then swithched back to another hare's ear type of fly tied with of all things scrap of material of flash and bunched up fuzzy goodies I had scatterd around my table top. Well those scraps resulted in the only "bump" I had for the day. I was so surprised when it came that I did not even react until I was the only "jerk" left at the other end of the line. When I retrieved this psychodelic Hares Ear tied, there was a little noticeable damage left to the tail end of the fly.
This may not sound too exciting of a day for most of you but I was elated that I created interest from a fly that I personally created and in waters I have fished twice this year without a grab, bump, nudge of even a passing glance.
So I was very happy with an outing of 0 and 1 on the American. :) :) :)