Thanks for taking us along, fishin with you Tony. Interesting that I
have had exceptional experiences, fishing flies tied with the Ginger hen.
The ginger hen is the result of 5 generations on the hen side and they
are the Cree mommas. If one looks closely you will see, basically the
color is Ginger but when one looks very closely there is more colors.
Why do they work? I sure do not know but I feel it is how this
particular color hen feather refracts the light. Who knows.
Denny
On 9/15/2013 7:34 AM, Anthony Spezio wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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 Herlbody. 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
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