03-08-2017, 12:16 AM
I just got back from the So. Fork and had a good time. It was actually my first time fishing the river and it produced some great fish for my family and I. From what I have seen most people tend to fish under a float or with a peg bead set up under an indicator. Water is the key and we hit it while it was still fairly low in the Harpster area. If the water is higher which it will be after this rain they are said to get I'd try and time it for when the water is on the decline since it will be clearing. We used a couple of methods. We started with yarn and a small bit of shrimp in a couple runs near Harpster and the fish like that in the faster runs that we fished. I'm not a slow hole kind of guy and we fished a lot of holes that don't give the fish much time to decide whether or not to take the bait. We fished exclusively in tailouts. More casts and more chances of fooling a fish into a strike in faster water. We also put the drift rods down and fished beads under an indicator and did well using that method. Again with the fly rods we fished faster holes than the majority of people in those stretches. The fish were big, and fought well. I don't know how this run has been compared to others or the best week to catch the peak of the run but it was a great experience.
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