Prospector
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Time Fished: 930am - 1210pm
Weather Conditions: 62 degrees, Sunny climbing to 73
Water Conditions: 59 degrees, low, cfs was 140 (historical average for this day is 220 cfs), clear with brown tinge
Insects: most plentiful were a couple different types of Caddis (sz 16/18) couldn’t catch any, Mayfly sz 16/18 maybe Little Yellow Quill (Heptageniidae), Mayfly very small sz 24/26 olive body with light/clear wings likely Tiny Blue Wing Olive (Baetidae) these little buggers might have been dominant fly but they were so hard to see; also yellow midges that I’ve never seen before
When we arrived to take a look at the creek the Cedar Waxwings were busy at work crisscrossing the creek picking off insects.
Despite an abundance of flies we did not see any rises right away. I started with a large white streamer and fished it about 400 yds downstream catching a 9” brown and missing 4 others all about the same size. After fishing through, I went back to the location where I had the most strikes and tried nymphs, wets and 4 different dries but never had another strike. I saw only a handful of rises.
The guy I was with put on a Woolly Bugger but he quickly changed to a dry when he saw his first rise. He went through full gamut of nymph, dry, wet streamer and had 3 strikes.
Three guys came at 1135am and fished above us for about 40 minutes (nymphing) without catching a fish. Said they caught some small ones elsewhere earlier in the morning
The photo of the Tiny BWO isn’t representative of what I saw live. The body was light green when I caught it (looks brown in photo). The fly was so small (smaller than 3/16") I ended up damaging it.
Weather Conditions: 62 degrees, Sunny climbing to 73
Water Conditions: 59 degrees, low, cfs was 140 (historical average for this day is 220 cfs), clear with brown tinge
Insects: most plentiful were a couple different types of Caddis (sz 16/18) couldn’t catch any, Mayfly sz 16/18 maybe Little Yellow Quill (Heptageniidae), Mayfly very small sz 24/26 olive body with light/clear wings likely Tiny Blue Wing Olive (Baetidae) these little buggers might have been dominant fly but they were so hard to see; also yellow midges that I’ve never seen before
When we arrived to take a look at the creek the Cedar Waxwings were busy at work crisscrossing the creek picking off insects.
Despite an abundance of flies we did not see any rises right away. I started with a large white streamer and fished it about 400 yds downstream catching a 9” brown and missing 4 others all about the same size. After fishing through, I went back to the location where I had the most strikes and tried nymphs, wets and 4 different dries but never had another strike. I saw only a handful of rises.
The guy I was with put on a Woolly Bugger but he quickly changed to a dry when he saw his first rise. He went through full gamut of nymph, dry, wet streamer and had 3 strikes.
Three guys came at 1135am and fished above us for about 40 minutes (nymphing) without catching a fish. Said they caught some small ones elsewhere earlier in the morning
The photo of the Tiny BWO isn’t representative of what I saw live. The body was light green when I caught it (looks brown in photo). The fly was so small (smaller than 3/16") I ended up damaging it.
