Fishing Forum

Brother in law was in town and wanted to go fishing. We rigged him up in the H3 and the Hubby and myself in the NFO Navigator II (I say NFO cause there is another Navigator II that is a "U" tube.....not even close[laugh])

We got on the water about 10:00 am. Breezy, but not too bad.
We launched at a tributary of Indian Creek Bay. Had to kick out quite a ways to get out of the Tributary as it is not open to fishing till July some time.
I got out in the bay first, and was using a Crayfish imitation on Depth Charge line at first. I notice several fish hanging about a foot off the bottom (around 16') on my sonar, so, what the heck. I threw on an indicator and a Black and Red Chironomid. The guys didn't even bring their floating line as we never deep nymph there.
Well despite the full moon, fishing was very good for me:

















An Baxter hung in there the whole time:



GREAT DAY! for me. The guys one each with my guidance. LOL
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I have never deep nymphed there either. I will put on a trailer nymph as the water warms and the fish go deeper. I am more of a moving around person and sitting and watching my strike indicator is a little too hard for me. I know it can a be very effective way to catch over pressured fish.
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I agree, there are times that you feel you could open a beer and kick back with a DVD player waiting for that indicator to go down, and in those cases, it is the depth charge and right off the bottom. But today wasn't one of those days. I did miss several, but it was steady action for about an hour.
Then died off and back to the full sink and the Crayfish, which I landed a very nice 24". To put into perspective the fly is 4" long

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Nice Job FG! Sounds like you did a bit better than we did on Fri. Is a Depth Charge line a sink tip? How big were the Chironomids? Did you get any fish in the shallows? Hey I caught a fish Friday that I thought was a rainbow. It didn't have a very pronounced stripe, but it was real green on the back, it also had the clipped fin. It was 16 inches long. I let it go to get bigger. my father in law said it was a Cutt. because it had faint orange marks under the gills. I was just wondering if the DWR plants or/and clips the fins of Cutts up there.

Humpy
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That is tough up there because even some of the bows have the slash. The first one I caught was at 20" and NO markings under the jaw....definitely a Rainbow. A littler thinner than all the cutts I caught, with one being 18" and the rest over 20".
Depth Charge is sort of a sink tip. It is weighed in grains like trolling line.
On my 6 wt. I went with 300 grains. So the line is 30 feet of 300 grain to 70 feet of intermediate, but one line, no connections.
The reason I like it, is when on the bottom and you pull a leech or crayfish, it pulls straight instead of up and down, more like the real thing.
The Chironomids ar a streamer hook #16. Black Tungsten bead, black floss, and a red wire rib. I do put a peacock thorax on the upper end of hook just behind the bead, with a Mylar overwing and white antron in a figure 8 (like on a copper john but antron instead of a feather). I clip the antron short so they are more gills than legs. I then coat them real good with Sally Hansen's Hard as Nails.
Here is the fly LOL


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now how are we suppose to see the fish for that fly.. [:p]

MacFly
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Good looking fish....very nice pics.
I got to try and get to the berry.....but those dang tiger musky keep calling.....at pine view....+
castttl
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How you been doing with the Muskie?
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Ok....lets divide the musky fishing into two categories.
1> the fly rod......have been out twice this year...newton and at pineview. I did not get any follows on the fly rod at Pineview....but had 11 follows at Newton. I had to rest my heart several times, as they came to the boat....and even hung around, just so they could really p;;;;s me off[cool] So it was a no hitter (stikeout) ball game on the fly rod.
Now conventional tackle.....numerous follows....and 4 hookups, two landed...two saying bye bye with my tackle trailing...
I am really trying to get a tiger over 40" on my flyrod....right now....38 1/2" is the largest tiger landed on my fly rod...and that was two years ago.
castthl
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WOW! That is great! I have wanted to get up to Pineview on my pontoon (basically why I built the standing platform - sight fishing) but, my old man just won't go! Someday. I know if I got up there and caught one, he would have no problem with it, just like the Carp at Jordan River. I have peeked his interest in that.

PM me if you get up to the Berry, specially on a Sunday. Would love cruising with you again.
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