08-23-2017, 01:21 AM
A buddy and I fished Forsyth Reservoir today from our kick boats. We hadn't been for awhile and wanted to see how the fish are doing after the valve failure on the dam last year that nearly drained the reservoir.[:/]
We used both medium sinking lines and fast sinking lines with size 8 bead head leeches and buggers in green, olive, black/orange, and black/red/blue (midnight fire). We fished from 9:30 until 2:30 a picked up all tiger trout between 11" and 18" long. The best method was to cast out 50' - 60' of line, paddle for 15-20 seconds and then strip the fly in. Those tigers have a hard time letting anything get away from them.
The reservoir level is down about 12' - 15' from full and still dropping. The water temperature was 60-61 degrees and the visibility in the water of about 4' because of algae in the water column. There were some mayflies along with some midges that the fish were coming to the surface for. There are also a lot of backswimmers/waterboatman near the bottom
There were a couple of boats on the water and a couple of shore anglers and that was it. It was a nice day, cool with a few light showers from time to time and very little wind.
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We used both medium sinking lines and fast sinking lines with size 8 bead head leeches and buggers in green, olive, black/orange, and black/red/blue (midnight fire). We fished from 9:30 until 2:30 a picked up all tiger trout between 11" and 18" long. The best method was to cast out 50' - 60' of line, paddle for 15-20 seconds and then strip the fly in. Those tigers have a hard time letting anything get away from them.
The reservoir level is down about 12' - 15' from full and still dropping. The water temperature was 60-61 degrees and the visibility in the water of about 4' because of algae in the water column. There were some mayflies along with some midges that the fish were coming to the surface for. There are also a lot of backswimmers/waterboatman near the bottom
There were a couple of boats on the water and a couple of shore anglers and that was it. It was a nice day, cool with a few light showers from time to time and very little wind.
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