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Went last thursday.....second car in the parking lot that morning....started off with a green drake dry pattern even though no fish were rising....immediately fish were "short striking" behind my fly...6 or 7 did before a monster 10" brown finallly decided that enough teasing had been done and he made the mistake of hooking himself.(its great when you are about to cast again and one decides to open his mouth at the same time you are starting your cast upstream.)
I traveled a bit down stream...about a quarter mile or so just to see what the water level in the holes looked like...I caught one more on the drake dry and had a few that looked and just yawned at it.
I again returned to the first hole I started with and found two fellow fly anglers fishing it...I proceeded to get on the other side....and started fishing close to the bank...I changed several nymph patterns and nothing....so I put on a dark green semi seal wolly bugger...and cast upstream. I fished it much like a nymph...giving it a twitch now and then....and BAM....a nice 16 1/2 inch brown engulfed it...
I laned that fish and the very next cast....sever jolt(rod flex).....and I was again into a 17 1/2 in overweight brown....I landed him....
I saw caddis, green drake, grey spotted mayfly, and caddis come off that morning...but only saw two fish rise in that time....the water was a bit off colored but the fish seem to want their lunch delivered to them on a smorgasboard conveyour belt....so that is what I did to catch a couple....
keep the shadow to a minimum....(and its hard for us "healthy folk")
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Nice report. I was there yesterday and we were the 2nd vehicle there. We were using Rapalas (or rapala like lures) and we hammered them. Between 3 of us we caught roughly 50 fish. I also stuck a few on a olive marabou jib fished in the deeper holes.

We caught several in the 18-20" range but most were 15-16".
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Apologies for not realizing this was the fly fishing forum before making my reply above.
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no apologies necessary.....I need to tart streamer fishing more.....since I do like to fish with my flyrod.....maybe I can get over the dozen mark.....lol
sounds like you had a great day
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I fly fish a lot myself.

I streamer or bugger would have been lights out yesterday for sure. I was using a 1/8oz lead head and the rest of the jib was a olive bugger pattern... brown hackle, olive chenille and marabou. I fished that for an hour and nailed a few but probably missed 5 or 6 others.
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Today is my day off and I have been tying some semiseal green and hen feather matuka style streamers. You have made me wish that I was there right now.....ouch.....
but....may early saturday....before the sleep gets out of the weekend warriors...I can give it another go.....thanks for your info and thread
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Sounds like a good pattern! Hope you knock dead on Saturday morning.

Also... above I misspelled JIG twice... lol.. no a jib is not a new invention.
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I did awesome up there last week with some drake cripples. Friday was the last day I saw any of the big bastards though. I think that hatch is done. Those dummies still can't resist a potential big meal though Rock on dude.
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