Post by jonbo on Jan 30, 2021 14:51:27 GMT -6
I fished yesterday. The river wasn't particularly crowded if you were willing to move around a little bit. I fished at the Swim Beach Riffle, the Day Use Area, and the upper Evening Hole. The Swim Beach are wasn't much affected by the flooding, as far as I could tell, nor was the Day Use Area. I got into a few fish at each spot. I also found fish at the upper Evening Hole kind of confluence spot. They were hitting my BWO emergers swung, that is, tiny RS'2's and an olive WD-40. The WD-40 was probably the oldest fly in my box. I bought it probably 6 years ago (don't think I've ever tried tying one). I was almost surprised the hook wasn't too rusted not to break. There were some BWO's in the air, also, maybe, some midges, something tiny. The nymph that produced for me was a Tungsten Surveyor. That's a Lance Egan creation that's no more than Rainbow Sow Scud Dubbing for body and thorax. Simple as can be, it worked very well. My more complex mayfly nymph attempts didn't. I also fished an olive wooly bugger for 2 very nice fish about 17 inches. Never put down a wooly bugger!
As I said, the lower parts of the BB stocked areas didn't appear affected by the flooding at all, except for a small amount of channel redirection. The Evening Hole seemed more affected. It appeared to me like most of the gravel and small rocks had been scoured out, leaving even more exposed bedrock than was there before. I don't know how it will fish for everybody. Unfortunately I forgot to do one thing I had intended to do and explore the Rockpile Run, so I can't report on that (Sorry, Bill). The flow is quite low right now, but the fish are still hungry.
Aside: I didn't euro-nymph, but used indicators for nymphing. I'm kind of put off right now with euro-nymphing. I think I do something wrong (probably many things), but I haven't notice the vaunted superiority over indicator nymphing. Productivity-wise, for me, it's about equal. In that case, indicator nymphing is more satisfying. I can't stand trying to manage the MaxCham mono and casting not much different than flopping a cat-toy. I do enjoy being able to feel a hit, which you often can tight-lining, but that's about it. With indicator nymphing, too, it's a very simple matter to switch over to traditional wet-fly and dry-fly fishing when you start seeing rises. With the euro-rig, I've tried several ways of switching over. They were all a pain in the keaster. Anyway, that's all for that.
Jonbo, out.
