I've shelved my regular camera and started using my iPhone now for all my images. The iPhone is much easier for me to used and produces a clearer picture than my camera; the following images are from a Sipsey trip a couple of days ago. wild fern on the upper banks of the Sip this time
of the year
Fishing the Caney Fork Tailrace is the ultimate in tailrace
fishing, because of its beauty and of course the amount of rainbow and browns one
can land during an outing. I got to experience its beauty and its quality trout
on Wednesday of this week, fishing with one of my blogging buddies David Knapp. A
big thank you to David for helping me learn the tailrace much better and what
fly patterns worked best this time of the year.I wanted to learn how to effectively read the productive water and eliminate the so-called dead water; mission accomplished.
A quality rainbow that put quite a bend in my 4 wt. 9 ft. My 4 weight took a beating, breaking off 2 inches at the tip. I was trying to set the hook and the nymph flew back and hit the tip of the rod and broke the tip. Something that probably happens 1 in 10000 times, really weird. Redington will replace the rod for free.
One of the better rainbows of the day that inhaled the nymph;
of the four tailraces, I have fished since I started trout fishing the Caney is
my favorite. The gravel bottom makes for easy wading and super clear water lets
you know where the trout are feeding.
I know all of us who fly fish have had days when you ask
yourself, could it get any better than today? Well a couple of Wednesdays back
I kept asking myself that very question. There was only one other fisherman in the
gouge that day fishing in the 50 degree water with a gusting wind from the north at
10 to 15 mph. Lucky for me the wind was blowing with the current making a drift
much easier. I had 2 ½ hours to complete my mission today and I wanted to make
the most of the trip. So I made a beeline for one of my favorite holes that
always seem to have a good rainbow. Little did I know that today those good
rainbows would be some of the best trout that I’ve ever landed on the Sipsey. Numerous
trout were taken today using the bead-head nymph.
Some weeks ago I landed a number of trout with damaged
gill plates; this trout today had a red nick on its outer gill plate.
The videos below sums up the action for the afternoon; trout landed about every 10 to 15 minutes. I started the trip without my
Contour Video camera, but the action was so good, I decided to walk by to the truck and
get it. I lost a good 20 minutes of fishing time, but I made up for it after I got
back to the gorge and started landing rainbow again.
Sorry the sound didn’t record for this video, don’t know
why---I added some music that I thought might complement the action of this
trout.
This video is a little long because it took me quite a
while to land this rainbow. I was using a 6X tippet in the super clear water. This
fish is one of the best I’ve ever landed on the Sipsey. One will land more
trout here if they use a lighter tippet. I hope you guys enjoy it!
