Prospector
Well-known member
Time Fished: 315pm - 600pm
Weather Conditions: 80 degrees, total Sun to start then increasing clouds
Water Conditions: 55 degrees, Flow was swift with a cfs of 710 (median for today’s date is 500). Decent visibility.
Insects: Caddis were laying eggs. Appeared to be grannoms in low numbers. There was at least one in sight at all times but I didn’t notice more than 3 at any one time.
I started with a generic sz 10 buggy brown nymph (weighted), accompanied by 3 split shot without an indicator, and began getting strikes immediately. I lost the first 5 fish I hooked after fighting each for a bit. Some jumped, some stayed deep. Missed several others. I tied these “special nymphs” to test some really cheap Chinese hooks I bought on ebay (some come conveniently without points). So strike one for the new hooks.
I switched to a BH prince and never had a strike (might not have been getting deep enough).
Put on a sz 10 BH olive wooly bugger (tied on a mustad), fished it like a nymph and began picking up fish again. Missed quite a few. Caught about half of what I hooked. Was stuck on 4 for awhile and after a pass with no strikes I decided to go big.
I tied on a sz 6 weighted olive wooly bugger and fished it on a dead drift 2 o’clock to 10 o’clock without an indicator with the same 3 split shot. This was the ticket. For whatever reason these hookups were solid. I thought a smaller fly would fit better in their mouth but the trout were all over the big bugger. I caught 12 more during a great final hour. All of the fish really fought hard.
Ended up with 13 rainbows, 2 browns and a 19 1/2” palomino. This is the second 20ish palomino I’ve caught on the sz 6 olive Bugger in Brokenstraw over my last 3 trips there. Didn’t see either one until hooked.
Weather Conditions: 80 degrees, total Sun to start then increasing clouds
Water Conditions: 55 degrees, Flow was swift with a cfs of 710 (median for today’s date is 500). Decent visibility.
Insects: Caddis were laying eggs. Appeared to be grannoms in low numbers. There was at least one in sight at all times but I didn’t notice more than 3 at any one time.
I started with a generic sz 10 buggy brown nymph (weighted), accompanied by 3 split shot without an indicator, and began getting strikes immediately. I lost the first 5 fish I hooked after fighting each for a bit. Some jumped, some stayed deep. Missed several others. I tied these “special nymphs” to test some really cheap Chinese hooks I bought on ebay (some come conveniently without points). So strike one for the new hooks.
I switched to a BH prince and never had a strike (might not have been getting deep enough).
Put on a sz 10 BH olive wooly bugger (tied on a mustad), fished it like a nymph and began picking up fish again. Missed quite a few. Caught about half of what I hooked. Was stuck on 4 for awhile and after a pass with no strikes I decided to go big.
I tied on a sz 6 weighted olive wooly bugger and fished it on a dead drift 2 o’clock to 10 o’clock without an indicator with the same 3 split shot. This was the ticket. For whatever reason these hookups were solid. I thought a smaller fly would fit better in their mouth but the trout were all over the big bugger. I caught 12 more during a great final hour. All of the fish really fought hard.
Ended up with 13 rainbows, 2 browns and a 19 1/2” palomino. This is the second 20ish palomino I’ve caught on the sz 6 olive Bugger in Brokenstraw over my last 3 trips there. Didn’t see either one until hooked.
