Post by dainw on Feb 22, 2016 11:02:40 GMT -6
Made the trip to Gore yesterday morning. I almost got talked out of it because of all the reports about how dirty the water was and how slow fishing had been, but I decided to go anyway at least to check it out, and I'm glad I did.
First of all, the water is really dirty. I'm not sure how long it will take to clear because apparently the lake is really dirty as well. I started off in the Watts area and worked my way all the way down to the "rock garden area." I caught 3 fish total in this area throwing a brown near deer trailed either by a black woolly bugger or black stone fly nymph. The name of the game was getting your flies to the bottom and working them slooooooooowwwwwly. Anyways, about 10 o'clock, I decided to move up closer to the dam and see what the river looked like up there. Still muddy, but I was able to find a couple nice holes on the backside of the "island" for people who know the LIR. I ended up getting into some fish and called it a day about 1:30, with about 15 fish to hand, and another 10 missed hook set and LDR's. Same technique here. The current was pretty uniform so I'd pretty much throw my rig straight across and let it drift down on a tight line. The current was so slow and uniform that you could pretty much get a dead drift on a tight line. Every now and then I'd give a short strip just to impart some action. For the most part, takes weren't very subtle. Didn't take any pictures because everyone has seen what a 12-14 inch stocker looks like. Seems like there a lot of fish in the river right now though. Best fly was a black woolly but also caught them on near deers, olive woollys, stone fly nymphs, even caught my last fish on white egg.
First of all, the water is really dirty. I'm not sure how long it will take to clear because apparently the lake is really dirty as well. I started off in the Watts area and worked my way all the way down to the "rock garden area." I caught 3 fish total in this area throwing a brown near deer trailed either by a black woolly bugger or black stone fly nymph. The name of the game was getting your flies to the bottom and working them slooooooooowwwwwly. Anyways, about 10 o'clock, I decided to move up closer to the dam and see what the river looked like up there. Still muddy, but I was able to find a couple nice holes on the backside of the "island" for people who know the LIR. I ended up getting into some fish and called it a day about 1:30, with about 15 fish to hand, and another 10 missed hook set and LDR's. Same technique here. The current was pretty uniform so I'd pretty much throw my rig straight across and let it drift down on a tight line. The current was so slow and uniform that you could pretty much get a dead drift on a tight line. Every now and then I'd give a short strip just to impart some action. For the most part, takes weren't very subtle. Didn't take any pictures because everyone has seen what a 12-14 inch stocker looks like. Seems like there a lot of fish in the river right now though. Best fly was a black woolly but also caught them on near deers, olive woollys, stone fly nymphs, even caught my last fish on white egg.
