Da Berry Oct 1st and 2nd

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I am one of those guys in a kick boat with flies. I fished near East Portal from 4pm to dark and slayed them. It was my best day on the Berry since I don't know when. I caught 21 fish on flies and missed at least 20. It was constant action on white and dark buggers. Very fun. I did not mark a lot of fish which meant that they were up high and shallow. Mostly around the weed bed edges in 15 to 25 feet of water. Sad thing is the cuts seem to have disappeared. Mostly rainbows. I only caught about 5 cutts the whole night. What is going on? Where are the big cutts that we all thought would be in the Berry by now? The rainbows were all in the 12 to 14 range with only a couple of footballs that were 15 to 17. Those fish were fat and fought hard. If the power bait fishermen don't kill them all there will be some amazing rainbows next year and the year after.

I stayed up there overnight since it was so good. I called my buddy to come up and meet me in the morning so we could slay them again. He met me at 6:30am and we started to fly fish. I caught a rainbow in the fish 40 feet of launching and thought we were in for a banner day. Wrong!! The fish had their mouths wired shut. Fished all morning and only caught 9 fish. Three were cutts. That is frustrating. My buddy wondered if I was really caught them the night before. That is way it goes at the Berry. One minute hot, the next cold.

I hope that the cooler weather gets them going full time.
Happy fishing.
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