Hit up the nelle last night. Fished the last three hours of light. Caught 4 bows and I cutthroat. I have been catching quite a few cuts on the nelle the last few years. The cut went about 17" but was very skinny. I was just shore fishing. I was shocked at the size of rainbows. All of them were between 18 and 19"s. They were fat as pumpkins and weighed at least two and a half to three. Much bigger than the standard rainbows I am used to catching at the local lakes. Fish were hungry. I didn't miss one hit. Kept two rainbows for some fish sandwiches last night.
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Good, you must have caught them as they were waking up.[:p] I spend most of the day there yesterday and was able to catch one.[cool] Nice report thanks!
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IT'S THE MOON, I TELL YA! THE MOON! he, he, he, he.
You just need to go fishing with me...I am the luck charm for sure.[
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We will have to see about that.[cool]
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What were you using fishjon. My hat is off to you and the shore fishing.
Seems I am doing that more these days also.
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I am kind of ashamed to adimit this: especially to you (at one time in my life I was a devout flyfisherman) but I was using a mephs 3 gold algea on one rod and a worm and bobber on the other. Caught the cut and a couple of rainbows on the spinner and the rest on the worm. It wasn't serious fishing. Just a relaxing evening in a camp chair.
Fishjon
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Right on. My deep nymphing is like your worm and bubble...just different lures.
Like I said, my hat is off. Shore fishing can be a challenge but you sound like you got it down....keep up the great work.
I caught several rainbow at Jordanelle the past two trips, Mine were all very healthy also. The guys I went with caught some as well but a couple were as you said....snakie looking. But I didn't catch any chub either and I was fishing the bottom.
I wonder if they group in areas.
I was impressed with the J after the last couple of trips.
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So what is your standard fly at the nell. I almost brought my tube and fly rod yesterday but decided not to go to the trouble. The rainbows were full of ladybugs of all things. Both of them that I kept had over a dozen in them. The both had a greenish water beetle in them as well.
Fishjon
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Right now, my favorite go to fly is a #12 Haresear. But I know my Kelly Galloup Egg Suckin' Sculpin in Brown and Olive are killer.
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Definitely, the chubs do group up. If you find them, there will be lots of them together. Can't keep their grubby little mouths off my fly if I get into them.
I have hit Jordanelle also and have done really well on Halloween buggers, go figure, time of year right? I also caught some on orange zonkers. They are very good fighters and we caught 12 last time I went. Most were big and fat. Amazing.
I actually wanted to catch a chub or two for baiting the jigs at the berry, but they have moved off to some other area.
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