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Spent Fri and Sat on Deadwood Reservoir, with a little fishing on the upper Deadwood river. Got on the water about 11 am Fri morning, flyfishing off our pontoons. Hard fishing. Took about an hour before my first hit, a nice cutthroat, but it was off in just a few secs. Did manage to get him up high enough to identify him, but he flipped out the barbless hook just in time for me to snap a pic of the splash and a shadow of him headed back down to the deep. Took at least another 2 hours to find anything else, but managed to find 3 nice rainbows, 17-18", holding deep off the west side, south of the river inlet, stripping a size 10 GBH black woolly bugger slowly down the drop offs, casting to shore and slowly retrieving toward the 'toon. Called it quits about 5 and then hit the upper river Fri evening. My buddy might have caught a couple small guys, but I had nothing until I drifted a hare's ear nymph over some rocks into a turbulent little hole and ran into some very accomodating 10" whitefish. After about 6 or 7 of those little guys, called it a night. Sat morning started off real slow. A lot of little risers on the lake, but I could find no quality fish. Gave up and started playing dry fly with the little guys with limited success. My buddy then found the secret. Go into the deeper water, but still find the small guy risers. Fish a Sheep Creek Special about 2 to 3 feet below and around the risers, and voila, there were the 13-15" cutty cruisers. My second cast using his techinque brought in a nice 14" cutthroat. We continued to have success with the cutthroat using that technique for the remainder of the morning, but, alas, we had to depart at noon to get home in time for the awaiting yard work.

Sorry about the picture quality, but I wasn't planning on taking any fish home this time, so I try not to take them out of the water. Consequenty, the picture quality suffers.
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Thanks for the report. It sounds like a lot of experimentation paid off.

Windriver
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nice !
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