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Was up at camp for a few days this week for Spring clean up and to help with the STW section stockings on Kettle and Little Kettle. Got out Wednesday for a couple hours on the FFO on Kettle. Started at the bridge and worked up maybe a half mile or so.
Time Fished: 2:45 PM to 5:00 PM
Weather: Mid 50's air temp, mostly sunny, VERY windy out of the west. Fished the lower part of the FFO stretch since for the most part it's tucked up against the ridge to the west there.
Water Conditions: Temp 45, 330ish CFS at Cross Fork, essentially clear. Deepest holes were aqua green.
Hatches: Black Stones, and a size 14/16-ish tan/gray Caddis. When the wind would stop blowing the Caddis would come off pretty strong, and the fish were aware and rising.
Nymphed upstream at first with a BHPT and Bird of Prey Caddis. Lost a Rainbow and landed a 9" or so wild Brown, both on the PT. Rainbow was in a small eddy tucked up against the bank in otherwise fast water. Brown was in the tailout of a pool.
Once I got past the first S bend upstream from the bridge, and the stream pulled away from that west ridge, the wind started to become really bad. Walked back to the bridge pool with a plan to leave, but in a lull in the wind I noticed the Caddis coming off and fish taking them so I tied on a size 14 gray EHC and quickly stuck 3 Rainbows, landing two of them. Only had about 20 minutes to fish at the bridge before I needed to be back at camp for dinner, but with more time, and some patience with the wind, there was probably a good evening's fishing to be had there. The fish were eating the most active Caddis on the surface. The still ones would float by seemingly unnoticed, but the active ones would get destroyed. I hooked my fish essentially dragging the EHC across the surface on a downstream swing, or almost stripping it back upstream toward me on the surface. No one else fishing anywhere in the FFO from what I could see.
Time Fished: 2:45 PM to 5:00 PM
Weather: Mid 50's air temp, mostly sunny, VERY windy out of the west. Fished the lower part of the FFO stretch since for the most part it's tucked up against the ridge to the west there.
Water Conditions: Temp 45, 330ish CFS at Cross Fork, essentially clear. Deepest holes were aqua green.
Hatches: Black Stones, and a size 14/16-ish tan/gray Caddis. When the wind would stop blowing the Caddis would come off pretty strong, and the fish were aware and rising.
Nymphed upstream at first with a BHPT and Bird of Prey Caddis. Lost a Rainbow and landed a 9" or so wild Brown, both on the PT. Rainbow was in a small eddy tucked up against the bank in otherwise fast water. Brown was in the tailout of a pool.
Once I got past the first S bend upstream from the bridge, and the stream pulled away from that west ridge, the wind started to become really bad. Walked back to the bridge pool with a plan to leave, but in a lull in the wind I noticed the Caddis coming off and fish taking them so I tied on a size 14 gray EHC and quickly stuck 3 Rainbows, landing two of them. Only had about 20 minutes to fish at the bridge before I needed to be back at camp for dinner, but with more time, and some patience with the wind, there was probably a good evening's fishing to be had there. The fish were eating the most active Caddis on the surface. The still ones would float by seemingly unnoticed, but the active ones would get destroyed. I hooked my fish essentially dragging the EHC across the surface on a downstream swing, or almost stripping it back upstream toward me on the surface. No one else fishing anywhere in the FFO from what I could see.
