3wt7X
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Times Fished: Tuesday evening, Wednesday morning and evening and Thursday morning.
Weather: Tuesday was hot. Temps were in the low 90s on the drive up. It was pretty comfortable during the evening hatch with mostly sunny conditions. Wednesday was nice in the morning with temps in the low 60s and it clouded up as the morning progressed. It stormed late on Wednesday, which cooled everything down. Thursday morning was very pleasant with misty rain on and off and one decent shower. Temps in the upper 50s.
Water: It was pretty warm when I first arrived. Stream temps in the mid 60s and we waited until the shade line covered half the stream before starting. We were fishing several miles below the C&R. I am certain it was cooler up there. Stream temps were in the low 60s/upper 50s in the C&R on Wednesday and Thursday. Water was only slightly stained with overall good clarity.
Hatches: Bug soup. Sulphers and yellow/orange Cahills size 12-18, slate drakes size 12, tan caddis size 16, olive caddis size 12, big golden stoneflies, brown stoneflies, midges and Green Drakes. Several other small mayflies to include olives size 20 and below.
Results: As always, it was a pleasure to be in Penns Valley. On the first evening, I took a brown nymphing pretty early and looked downstream and saw several dimple rises in the tail out of a long pool. We fished dries the rest of the evening and had steady action on olives first, then sulpher spinners.
Day two, we had coffin flies hitting the water in the morning. I took a nice brown and solid smallmouth on drake dries in the C&R. We switched over to nymphs as the sun came out and landed several more. The hot fly was a hot spot walt’s worm, and I took a very hefty 18 in brown around 11am. We took a break for lunch and a quick nap and returned to cloudy conditions with storms looming as it got closer to dusk. Great dry fly fishing that evening! Steady sulphers, ISOs, and eventually drakes. There were a good number of targets throughout the evening and peaking a dusk. I took a nice 17 inch hook jawed male on a long cast along the bank using a biot bodied sulpher parachute and a nice native brook trout in the middle of a huge hole. It was a special night, but it was not easy. Slow approaches, long leaders, reach mend casts and feeding line for drag free drifts were the order of the day.
We only fished the morning on day three. It was cloudy and the temps had dropped off after the storms. Slow start to the morning, but the isos produced closer to noon.
Overall, a great trip with even better friends!!! The wildlife and scenery was amazing and it was well needed R & R.
Weather: Tuesday was hot. Temps were in the low 90s on the drive up. It was pretty comfortable during the evening hatch with mostly sunny conditions. Wednesday was nice in the morning with temps in the low 60s and it clouded up as the morning progressed. It stormed late on Wednesday, which cooled everything down. Thursday morning was very pleasant with misty rain on and off and one decent shower. Temps in the upper 50s.
Water: It was pretty warm when I first arrived. Stream temps in the mid 60s and we waited until the shade line covered half the stream before starting. We were fishing several miles below the C&R. I am certain it was cooler up there. Stream temps were in the low 60s/upper 50s in the C&R on Wednesday and Thursday. Water was only slightly stained with overall good clarity.
Hatches: Bug soup. Sulphers and yellow/orange Cahills size 12-18, slate drakes size 12, tan caddis size 16, olive caddis size 12, big golden stoneflies, brown stoneflies, midges and Green Drakes. Several other small mayflies to include olives size 20 and below.
Results: As always, it was a pleasure to be in Penns Valley. On the first evening, I took a brown nymphing pretty early and looked downstream and saw several dimple rises in the tail out of a long pool. We fished dries the rest of the evening and had steady action on olives first, then sulpher spinners.
Day two, we had coffin flies hitting the water in the morning. I took a nice brown and solid smallmouth on drake dries in the C&R. We switched over to nymphs as the sun came out and landed several more. The hot fly was a hot spot walt’s worm, and I took a very hefty 18 in brown around 11am. We took a break for lunch and a quick nap and returned to cloudy conditions with storms looming as it got closer to dusk. Great dry fly fishing that evening! Steady sulphers, ISOs, and eventually drakes. There were a good number of targets throughout the evening and peaking a dusk. I took a nice 17 inch hook jawed male on a long cast along the bank using a biot bodied sulpher parachute and a nice native brook trout in the middle of a huge hole. It was a special night, but it was not easy. Slow approaches, long leaders, reach mend casts and feeding line for drag free drifts were the order of the day.
We only fished the morning on day three. It was cloudy and the temps had dropped off after the storms. Slow start to the morning, but the isos produced closer to noon.
Overall, a great trip with even better friends!!! The wildlife and scenery was amazing and it was well needed R & R.
