Apparently everyone else thought Friday was the day too; didn’t make me no never mind, I was going to fish!!
I was anxious to try out
my new Prestige Plus fly line from Cabelas. I also want to see how effective
the furled leader works fishing it on a downstream retrieve. I’ve never fished
this type of leader, and understand from information I’ve read it really enhances
a dry flies drift. I was ready to accept the fact that I would be changing
leaders to fish the nymph and dry throughout the afternoon. I won’t complain if
it improves my catch ratio.
Nymphs are my go-to
pattern on the Sip, so the nymph was tied on and I was off to access 5. All the
heavy rains had changed the color of the water to aqua green.
Numerous stockers were
brought to hand this afternoon using my 9 ft. 3 weight StreamFlex which made me
think at times I was landing 12” trout. I talk to one guy who was landing the
stockers using a 6 weight----way OVERKILL!!
A guide trip in progress
right below me, four fly fishermen above me and more on up the gorge; plenty of
company.
This fatty put up quite a
fight before I finally netted it. I thought I was going to lose this fish, because
I kept thinking my 6X was going to break with each hard run it would make.
Unusual markings on this
little guy---I am wondering if this is a rainbow, what do you guys think??
The only downer for this
trip were the coils I kept experiencing all afternoon forming at my feet; I am
going to assume I spooled the line on wrong. I kept hoping I would get a chance
to try out my new furled leader but no surface activity was present the entire
afternoon. I was told by one guy that the hatch occurred early morning, so
guess when I will be back? --------as if I needed a reason to come back!!!