[size=x-small]The second attempt in the last week to get on the board and made out very well for the day. Maurice hit me up last night to get out today to Muddy Creek. Conditions looked good and the stream didn't let us down.
We arrived at about 11:00 with temps in the mid-forties and cloud cover. The clouds stayed with us all day and temps moved up to the upper forties. Water was just a little off-color, running at 180 CFS and at about 46 degrees.
Maurice pointed out what really made conditions work is the very warm weather and rain just two days before. Yesterday the water temp was ~51 and sunny. So we had a good setup for the day.
I even saw a few ~#26 BWO? coming off sporadically a few times during the day. There were a couple rises at one hole. Enough excitement for me to put on a dry fly, but really it was only a Hail Mary and had no luck.
We started out pretty quickly getting some hits and trout My first fish landed at before noon and Maurice followed right along or vice versa I can't recall. I pretty much stuck to fishing a black Palmer streamer all day. Most of my fish were pulled out from opposite sides of a hole and the fish striking on the swing. An occasional little twitch helped give the streamer some slight action.
Maurice stuck to nymphing for the day and was hitting more the deeper holes and runs. We did really well catching many fish for the day. We had fall stocked bows, TU browns and Mo caught a wild trout to close the day. The stocked fish looked in good shape and were all 10"-14".
Prolly the best day of January fishing I can remember. Great having Maurice there guiding.
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We arrived at about 11:00 with temps in the mid-forties and cloud cover. The clouds stayed with us all day and temps moved up to the upper forties. Water was just a little off-color, running at 180 CFS and at about 46 degrees.
Maurice pointed out what really made conditions work is the very warm weather and rain just two days before. Yesterday the water temp was ~51 and sunny. So we had a good setup for the day.
I even saw a few ~#26 BWO? coming off sporadically a few times during the day. There were a couple rises at one hole. Enough excitement for me to put on a dry fly, but really it was only a Hail Mary and had no luck.
We started out pretty quickly getting some hits and trout My first fish landed at before noon and Maurice followed right along or vice versa I can't recall. I pretty much stuck to fishing a black Palmer streamer all day. Most of my fish were pulled out from opposite sides of a hole and the fish striking on the swing. An occasional little twitch helped give the streamer some slight action.
Maurice stuck to nymphing for the day and was hitting more the deeper holes and runs. We did really well catching many fish for the day. We had fall stocked bows, TU browns and Mo caught a wild trout to close the day. The stocked fish looked in good shape and were all 10"-14".
Prolly the best day of January fishing I can remember. Great having Maurice there guiding.
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