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Fly Fishing Reports => Local Trip Reports => Topic started by: Big J on July 09, 2019, 08:19:40 AM

Title: When the wife is away TR
Post by: Big J on July 09, 2019, 08:19:40 AM

Wife and girls were out of town for a week so I had a weekend to plan fishing.  I was planning on hitting the local river Saturday for carp but all the rain had it blown out.  Decided I should take advantage of the morning and all this excess rain and hit a trout stream nearby.  It was a good call.  I've been worried about this stream the past couple year as every year I fish it, it gets worse and worse.  Smaller fish, less numbers. Use to catch a 10" fish pretty regularly, and in the past 3 years I've maybe caught 1 or 2.  Saturday showed me what that stream could do on a good day.  Fished for 4 hours in the morning and caught easily over 100 fish.  I couldn't believe how teeming with trout all the pools were so for an hour I decided to count the trout I caught.  Caught 39 in an hour.  And I wasn't even in the best stretch of the stream at that time.  Also caught one that was around 11" mark. Dry/Dropper rig did the trick, with most of the fish coming off the dropper.

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Saw boat loads of these newts.

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Best fish of the day.

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That fish was sitting right in front of the two rocks in the water in about 6" of water. 


Then Sunday Doug and I decided to float the Jackson.  Water was stained so we pretty much threw streamers all day.  We both caught a fish.  We both loss some nice fish.  Fun float even if the catching was slow.  Doug is getting better at rowing. 

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Doug on the board while nymphing during lunch.

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Then around 1, the heavy rain came.  We were getting slashes at the streamers at an okay pace, but after the rain came, fish activity went to 0.

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Fawns impressed us by leaving bed their momma left them at and darting across river.

Now I have to adjust back to married with kids life.  It'll be a rough week. 

Title: Re: When the wife is away TR
Post by: Woolly Bugger on July 09, 2019, 08:39:05 AM
mighty fing efting reportage... looks like your big brokie was bigger that Doug's rainbow ...
Title: Re: When the wife is away TR
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on July 09, 2019, 09:03:22 AM
Good job guys!

"Doug is getting better at rowing."

I had a pal on that section of river.  I alerted him that you guys were coming through and keep an eye – just in case you needed anything.  Who was on the tiller when the boat hit that sycamore sweeper sideways?     
Title: Re: When the wife is away TR
Post by: Yallerhammer on July 09, 2019, 09:17:38 AM
 V:;  'c;
Title: Re: When the wife is away TR
Post by: Dougfish on July 09, 2019, 09:30:01 AM

Muddy ain't got no intel. I did stick us on a big flat rock that jumped in front of us.  :laugh:
It's a pigboat, OK? Not every boat can tote a bike on the back.
We suk. The water was funky. But the scenery was pretty. The fawn spook was cool.
The lightning spared us. The rain, not. I wish J posted his bike shuttle ride videos.
And it was a yuge brown I caught, not a bow.

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Title: Re: When the wife is away TR
Post by: itieuglyflies on July 09, 2019, 17:02:59 PM
Good stuff......looking forward to my next adventure on the USSDOUGFISH.