FIN-ITE 34
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This morning I fished TomFly's namesake WTS. I arrived at 7:30am with a water temperature of 60°F and flows much lower than I had anticipated.
I started off fishing my go to olive with pink parachute. Nothing. I then changed up to a tan caddis since there were a few coming off. Zero. The stream is heavily covered with hemlock and hardwoods, blocking out quite a bit of light, making it difficult to track the fly especially in the broken water of the plunge pools. So I decided to break with standards and go for gaudy to see if that would make a difference. The pattern I chose was one that I think I may have seen at the "Small Stream Reflections" blog and If so wanted to give credit where due. The pattern was a size 14 dry with an orange deer hair tail and comparadun style wing. The body was peacock herl and it had a few wraps of grizzly hackle behind and in front of the wing. The hackle was trimmed off across the bottom of the hook making it ride low in the film. Well that easy to see fly made tracking easy and it seemed the trout liked it too because I brought at least a dozen pretty little browns to hand and numerous other misses and drops. This is a poor picture but I think you can get the idea.
The majority of the fish were about six inches in length with a couple of fish breaking the ten inch mark.
I try to fish this stream at least once a year just to keep tabs on it. The parking area usually looks like The Little United Nations by the time I get back to the car but today it was practically a ghost town. The water temperature at noon when I left was 62°F.
Just a fun, relaxing day fishing dries for little wild browns.
And this is always a welcome posting.
I started off fishing my go to olive with pink parachute. Nothing. I then changed up to a tan caddis since there were a few coming off. Zero. The stream is heavily covered with hemlock and hardwoods, blocking out quite a bit of light, making it difficult to track the fly especially in the broken water of the plunge pools. So I decided to break with standards and go for gaudy to see if that would make a difference. The pattern I chose was one that I think I may have seen at the "Small Stream Reflections" blog and If so wanted to give credit where due. The pattern was a size 14 dry with an orange deer hair tail and comparadun style wing. The body was peacock herl and it had a few wraps of grizzly hackle behind and in front of the wing. The hackle was trimmed off across the bottom of the hook making it ride low in the film. Well that easy to see fly made tracking easy and it seemed the trout liked it too because I brought at least a dozen pretty little browns to hand and numerous other misses and drops. This is a poor picture but I think you can get the idea.
The majority of the fish were about six inches in length with a couple of fish breaking the ten inch mark.
I try to fish this stream at least once a year just to keep tabs on it. The parking area usually looks like The Little United Nations by the time I get back to the car but today it was practically a ghost town. The water temperature at noon when I left was 62°F.
Just a fun, relaxing day fishing dries for little wild browns.
And this is always a welcome posting.
