09-02-2008, 08:42 PM
Saturday and Sunday's weather was fantastic! Saturday was hot and clear. Sunday was cloudy, calm, and very warm. Big winds came up after sunset Sunday night, and it rained Sunday night and most of the day on Monday with temps in the 40's. I fished Little Hole to Browns Park, camping along the way. (brought home lots of wet, muddy camping gear and a muddy drift boat!) Dry fly fishing was pretty good during daylight hours with foam hoppers and ants fished blind along the banks and seams. Adult damsels worked GREAT on any rising fish during mid-day.
A few little mayflies popped Sunday morning, and again about mid-day Monday.Trout were rising from Grasshopper Is. to near the take-out in the seams and along the steeper banks. Evening fishing was pretty good Saturday and Sunday evenings with caddis.
Nymphing was just too easy. Any nymph dead-drifted through a riffle or over a drop-off caught fish. Pheasant tails, midge pupa, worms, scuds, take your pick. Fish-on in every riffle and seam.
Black wooly buggers were also pretty deadly in the faster riffles during the day, and anywhere in low-light of dusk.
Overall, the Green fished about as well as I've ever seen for early September. We caught fish on everything, pretty much all the time we fished. Mostly 12-15 inchers, but enough 16-20 inch browns to keep things interesting. Somehow, Red Creek was just a trickle on Monday around noon, and water was clear all the way to Taylor Flat.
And Monday, we never saw another boat!![cool][cool][cool]
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A few little mayflies popped Sunday morning, and again about mid-day Monday.Trout were rising from Grasshopper Is. to near the take-out in the seams and along the steeper banks. Evening fishing was pretty good Saturday and Sunday evenings with caddis.
Nymphing was just too easy. Any nymph dead-drifted through a riffle or over a drop-off caught fish. Pheasant tails, midge pupa, worms, scuds, take your pick. Fish-on in every riffle and seam.
Black wooly buggers were also pretty deadly in the faster riffles during the day, and anywhere in low-light of dusk.
Overall, the Green fished about as well as I've ever seen for early September. We caught fish on everything, pretty much all the time we fished. Mostly 12-15 inchers, but enough 16-20 inch browns to keep things interesting. Somehow, Red Creek was just a trickle on Monday around noon, and water was clear all the way to Taylor Flat.
And Monday, we never saw another boat!![cool][cool][cool]
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