Sharknado5
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Fished in the Keystone fly project near Wharton yesterday from 1:00 till 2:30PM. Sky was overcast, air temp 49, no wind, water temp was cold, (sorry I need to get a thermometer, new member). Water was clear but high and moving. USGS gauge at Wharton was 504. (it's 420 today May 12). Usually a good stream level there is below 300. It's been steadily coming down from a peak of 1500 cfs on May 6. I was the only fisherman in the stretch I fished and I saw only 4 other cars in the rest of the project.
I saw no rising fish and possibly only one mayfly on the water, it was against the far bank and I couldn't ID it but was a good sized fly, possibly a March Brown. A second hand report was that Gray Foxes were hatching earlier that day.
I was swinging a march brown soft hackle and a picket pin with a lot of weight and surprisingly caught a 17 inch fat rainbow on the pin. That was one of only 2 strikes during the 90 minutes I fished. I was there a week earlier before the storm front came thru and caught 3 big bows using similar flies. Stream flow then was about 220. God bless the Keystone project!
I saw no rising fish and possibly only one mayfly on the water, it was against the far bank and I couldn't ID it but was a good sized fly, possibly a March Brown. A second hand report was that Gray Foxes were hatching earlier that day.
I was swinging a march brown soft hackle and a picket pin with a lot of weight and surprisingly caught a 17 inch fat rainbow on the pin. That was one of only 2 strikes during the 90 minutes I fished. I was there a week earlier before the storm front came thru and caught 3 big bows using similar flies. Stream flow then was about 220. God bless the Keystone project!
