Wednesday Caster
10-09-2005, 11:03 PM
Last minute business called for me to deliver goods up to Minden= last minute FF trip :D . Business all taken care of Fri evening leaving Sat open for fishing. Started out late Sat AM and did not get to the water above Hangman's Bridge until 8am. Fished above the Carson River Resort camping areas but found nothing interested in anything I was offering- nymphs and dries. Drove up further about a mile and repeated the whole process and getting the same results. And then again another mile or so with a repeat of the first two stops :angry: . Hatch- was sparse or non existent. Puting in 3 hours and 0 fish I decided to go back to family's house in Gardnerville to have lunch and wait for the evening. Drove back to above the CRR camping area again and found another FF breaking down his rod and asked if he'd worked it over pretty good. He said he found no fish. There was a sparse hatch so I decided to go dry and maybe hang around long enough for the hatch to improve. After about 20 casts into the pool confirming the FF that left, I decided to wade upriver. During my wade upriver, the hatch was improving but still saw no fish rising. Determined to stick with the dry I found a set of 3 deep runs with riffling waters in between. I fished a light colored caddis with a black body and gray hackle but my position was too far up the pool which made for a very short drift and so I waded down just enough to extend the offer. The strategy worked. The flash of a 12" bow surprised me since I spent nearly 4.5 hours today with out a disturbance on the water but I was quick enough to respond and set the hook. I worked the next 2 runs the same way and managed about 10 strikes but landed only 4 with one being just shy of 14". I left the water at dark 6:40 (dark because I forgot to bring down my glasses and only had my sunglasses with me and couldn't bring myself to stop to walk back up to the van since I was finally into some fish). I've noticed that the evening on the EC out performs the morning and this day has was another confirmation. Will need to do a couple more studies to validate this data. One more note- as I drove up in the evening, I noticed in the CRR parking lot a fisher was putting his fish in a bag. This brute of a :fish: was easily 20" and thick. Do these mutants exist on the EC?