I seldom fish from the dock anymore. It is now overgrown with Coon Tail water grass . When the dam is shut down the grass is up to the surface with just a few holes in it to cast to. It is not worth the effort to fish. In this case, the dam was running two units that put the water level above the grass. The area that is now all Coon Tail that years ago was all gravel. It was a pleasure to fish off the dock. Now I can't wade anymore and my wife forbids me to take the boat out alone so I don't get much fishing in, It is hard to find someone at the moment I might want to go out. My daughters family was here a few weeks ago so I had my Son In Law to go out with me. We did get some good fishing in. Joyce, I know you like to hear about new patterns so I will share the one that was so hot a few weeks ago while I was fishing with my SIL. Hook sz 14 Tail, a few strands of Antron fibers very sparse. Body. Pearl Green Mylar ribbon. Hackle, Ginger hen. Some I got from Denny We had been fishing for an hour with no hits using several different flies. Decided to come in because we know the ladies would have something planned for the afternoon. Saw a pod of trout rising and decided to give it a try. Made a few casts and nothing doing. Changed over to this fly and started hooking up right on the first cast. It was almost a fish on each cast. I guess you know we were late getting back to the house. I only had one like it in my box and offered it to my SIL. He told me to just enjoy myself as I don't to get out too often. He did try a few other flies that came close to what I was using but did not have the results I was having. Tony
________________________________ From: Joyce M Westphal <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 8:24 AM Subject: Re: [VFB] Short Stort on Fishing Wow..what good observation and what a fantastic time on the dock. Joyce On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Anthony Spezio <[email protected]> wrote: Sitting on my porch looking out the window at the river I noticed a large number of rises around the dock. It was dead calm and the river was as smooth as glass.This is not normal when they are releasing water from the dam. I watched a while and then could not stand it any longer, I had to give it a try. I keep a rod ready under the porch but I had a Froggie tied on the leader so I had to change to a trout fly. This took me at least ten minuets as my eyesight is not what it used to be. I tied on a sz 16 Green Mylar body Soft Hackle that was a killer the last time I was on the river. Got down to the dock and made a few casts, no takes. Then two boats came past my dock right through the feeding lane. This put the trout down. Waited a bit and the rises started again. Made a few more casts and still no takes. Switched over to a Brown Soft Hackle, another ten minuets lost. >There was a steady riser and I cast a bit above and upstream from it. That was >a take. A nice 14"+ Rainbow. Cast to a few more rises that yielded another two > more Rainbows in the 14" class. In a sloppy cast I hit the dock rail that >broke off my fly. It was the only one I had like it. I tied on another soft >hackle with a Peacock Herl body. No takes and then tried another with still no >takes. These two were sz 14 flies. I guess they wanted the smaller flies. By >this time my legs and back had given out so I decided to call it quits. I had >been on the dock almost an hour. As I was leaving I heard a big splash. Waited >a bit and watched the area where I heard the splash. Sure enough It came up >again clean out of the water. This trout had to be at least a three pound >fish. What a thrill to see a Trout that big come full body out of the water. >It cleared the water by several inches. I did not know what it was taking ,I >could not see any bugs on the surface. >That made my day. >Arkansas Tony-- >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. > >To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >[email protected] >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > >VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com/ >--- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB >Mail" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >email to mailto:vfb-mail%[email protected]. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
