Monday evening was a very windy, but nicely overcast day. I decided to try streamer fishing and took off downstream with my 9 and a half foot Sage rigged with a large green, red, and white streamer. I placed a BB size split shot just above the fly to help it sink into the deep holes. After a few casts, I felt a hard strike and could see a flash underwater near my fly. But no luck, even though I quickly tried to set the hook, I didn’t get a solid hookup. I kept casting toward the far shore as I worked my way, hole to hole, downstream. I kept getting hits, but I never hooked any. I switched to a black, rabbit fur streamer and placed a slightly larger split shot above the fly. Soon I had another strike, just past a large boulder, but again, it didn’t hook. By now, I had fished downstream about as far as I wanted so I cut the streamer off and re-rigged for nymphing.
During the early winter I had good luck with size 16 scuds and Rainbow Warriors. I tried these first, heading upstream. No luck. I wondered, last year I remember having great fishing in the spring right before run off. What was I using then? I had been used to using smaller than size 20 nymphs on the Provo River and was using this same size on the Weber.
I cut off both of the size 16 flies I was using and tied on a size 22 WD-40 and size 22 Rainbow Warrior, both with bead heads. Within 10 minutes I had caught two 16 inch browns and one 17 inch cutthroat. The next fish hooked me up at the bottom of a boulder and my line snapped. At this moment I noticed a few young cows staring at me watching the excitement. In fact, after a couple of minutes the cows decided I was having so much fun in the water that they went ahead and hopped in the river too.
You used to take either our girls or our boys fishing, but now you just take cows. At least it looks like they are having fun.
ReplyDeleteditto. i was going to say exactly what he said ^^. took the words right out of my mouth.
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