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Post by todd13 on May 19, 2017 9:09:50 GMT -6
Driving up this evening and looking at the forecast. Let's hope we have no lightning....
Any tips/tricks for rain fishing or after the showers?
I am thinking of using a WB and a SJ worm as my dropper. Floating them down, waiting a bit, then retrieve. Worm for the trip down and the WB on the retrieve. I must confess, I stole this idea from a podcast.
Open to all ideas.
Going dark colors if I have dirty water (Sunday).
Thanks!
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Post by golferjeff on May 19, 2017 10:19:25 GMT -6
You wont have dirty water! rain has almost no effect on clarity unless it is a real downpour. This is not a freestone river. SJ worms are always a good bet if a heavier rain event. Big uglies like a pats rubberlegs work well too. Don't forget the larger eggs like Y2K as an attractor. Sometimes a steady rain can produce great hatches of midges and BWO's and fish will be poking noses all day. Just stay as dry as possible, stay out of lightning, and let the fish tell you what they want.
Fishing was VERY tough the last few days with heat, high sun, and no new fish.
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Post by Smallfry on May 19, 2017 13:19:12 GMT -6
I was given a few small cream sow buggy nymphs to use and they were very successful Tuesday, Wednesday morning we only had one hit on a nymph in upper Spillway but they went after the drys like crazy in the Evening Hole. As I am still new to the game I couldn't figure out what wet pattern to use Wed, tried several different colored zebras, that little sow bug and a few different soft hackles, hares ear, pheasant tails, nothin.
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Post by todd13 on May 22, 2017 9:11:41 GMT -6
thanks for the input! Very slow fishing to say the least this weekend. I got to see Jenny H., the guide, catch a beautiful 20" fish out of the EH, but otherwise it was some 6-8" fish hitting some dries. I even tried nymphing some to no avail.
Nobody was catching fish at OPD or Spillway...
Tough Saturday.
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Post by kingnothing on May 22, 2017 12:43:18 GMT -6
My daughter and I had a pretty good day Saturday at the bluffs. Fished with Trey from the fly shop. Attachments:
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Post by todd13 on May 22, 2017 15:05:43 GMT -6
Very nice fish! warm weather isn't helping.
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Post by jonbo on May 22, 2017 17:30:38 GMT -6
And it isn't even very warm, yet! That's the scary thing. By the way, "king", what were they biting on for you at the Bluffs? I'm headed over this weekend. I'm thinking of dredging the Bluffs and Cold Hole with streamers in the early mornings.
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Post by kingnothing on May 22, 2017 17:46:25 GMT -6
And it isn't even very warm, yet! That's the scary thing. By the way, "king", what were they biting on for you at the Bluffs? I'm headed over this weekend. I'm thinking of dredging the Bluffs and Cold Hole with streamers in the early mornings. The two in the pictures both took sz 20 black zebra midges. We caught a few smaller ones below EH on soft hackles. |
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Post by jonbo on May 22, 2017 21:09:44 GMT -6
They're nice fish! I can't wait.
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Post by bellyboatbob on May 22, 2017 23:24:24 GMT -6
I used to throw a sink tip in the cold hole when I could find it free of bait clunkers before the floods. I had pretty good success pulling out medium to large trout but had to strip pretty quickly to avoid getting hung up. I have no idea what the bottom is like now.
There are several places on the LMF that a sink tip works so I always bring rods by the pair, one floating and one sinking.
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Post by jonbo on May 23, 2017 5:35:23 GMT -6
I have a sink tip in 6 wt. I plan to use it up there with, like, an olive bunny leech. Thanks for the ,uhhh, tip!
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Post by Fenwick on May 23, 2017 12:00:17 GMT -6
Sounds like Todd13 witnessed Jenny land Robin Eric.
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Post by billko on May 23, 2017 13:08:21 GMT -6
Kings fish looks like one I caught there last Tuesday. It had about 4 feet of leader hanging out of it's mouth and the top of it's tail was gone. Cut the line off before releasing it. Caught on size 18 BWO para. Fished all week from bluffs down to eh bridge and caught a few. Mostly on BWO, olive buggers and tan ehc. Met lots of nice folks on the river. Great to see the North Texas Patriotic Anglers out. Also good to see some progress on EH re-construction.
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Post by Smallfry on May 24, 2017 11:20:33 GMT -6
... on size 18 BWO para. Fished all week from bluffs down to eh bridge and caught a few. Mostly on BWO, olive buggers and tan ehc. Met lots... I was hesitant to use an EH caddis last week but after several people mentioned them I went for it and that was much easier to spot than the adams we were using. Then seeing a few trout splash at it had me convinced  |
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Post by billko on May 24, 2017 16:32:19 GMT -6
My wife only fishes dry flies and the ehc is her favorite. For her it's about the beauty of the river and the wildlife. And she likes to catch a fish once in awhile.
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Post by jonbo on May 24, 2017 17:01:31 GMT -6
There's a good chance that this weekend at some point I'll be dry-dropper fishing the Evening Hole with an EHC or maybe a kind of mini-Stimulator I tied as my dry.
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Post by kingnothing on May 24, 2017 19:27:06 GMT -6
Kings fish looks like one I caught there last Tuesday. It had about 4 feet of leader hanging out of it's mouth and the top of it's tail was gone. Cut the line off before releasing it. Caught on size 18 BWO para. Fished all week from bluffs down to eh bridge and caught a few. Mostly on BWO, olive buggers and tan ehc. Met lots of nice folks on the river. Great to see the North Texas Patriotic Anglers out. Also good to see some progress on EH re-construction. Probably the same fish, it was missing the top of it's tail |
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