Paul,
Here's how I did on the Metolius. A brown floss bodied soft hackle is the one I got
the most strikes on.
The Clouser Minnows I imagined would work for bull trout, didn't get a single
bite. Well... unless the submerged pine tree doesn't count. It bit and kept my
Clouser.
The other fishing was "interesting". I finally caught some fish. Caught two small
trout and one afternoon fishing the Allingham Bridge hole.. had lots of strikes,
mostly on brown soft hackles. I fished them under a BWO and a golden stone Stimulator
and while I only had about 3 strikes on the dry flies.. had lots on the trailing wet
flies. Must have missed 12 or so strikes.
This was the first time I fished a trailer under a dry fly, and when the dry fly
went under, not due to a strike, it was hard to get used to lifting the rod. I
missed all strikes.
Had strikes on two types of Golden Stone dries, BWO dries, zug bugs, brown
soft hackles and some other wet flies that I can't remember.
This time I did NOT fall in the water and amuse my fellow fishermen, nor did I
hook myself while revealing my "secret fly" to other fishermen.
Did get to tour the E. F. Payne bamboo rod company in Sisters, Oregon and see their
museum with the old H. L. Leonard rod making equipment.
Payne has been in continuous business since 1876 and incorporated as a
business in 1898. The bamboo rods are cheap... (my humor). Lowest price one was $1850
with the regular rod going $2700. Kinda out of my range.
I figure this Metolius trip with the soft hackles as droppers under a dry was my
"primer" for how to fish when I go to the Yellowstone in two weeks. My pattern in the
past, with new methods, is to flail around on the initial trip with that new method
and then seem to "put it together" for the next trip.
Bill
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> From: PAUL "PRE" ELSBERRY[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 1:49 PM
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> Paul,
>
> How was the fishing on the Metolious? We'll be trying out the stream while
> the wives are at the quilt show in Sisters.
>
> Paul
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> From: Warner, Paul W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thursday, July 12, 2001 12:18 PM
> Subject: RE: MT/ID/WY report
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>
> >Andy,
> >
> >I liked your Yellowstone report as well. We're leaving the 26th for a week
> of geyser "photographing" and fishing. This will be my first trip there and
> I'm not sure what all to expect for the fishing.
> >
> >Just got back from fishing the Metolius down in Oregon and I hope it's
> better than that.
> >
> >Bill Warner
> >
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> >> From: Andy Towell[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 6:31 PM
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> >> Subject: MT/ID/WY report
> >>
> >> Just returned from an 10 day trip to the Yellowstone region:
> >>
> >> Fished Rock Creek MT one day on the way over (June 29th). A good number
> of pmd's and green drakes on the water and the fish treated me well. Ran in
> to a MT biologist checking a smolt trap and he mentioned that Rock Creek is
> second only to one of the Missouri tribs (prickly pear?) in terms of
> whirling disease load. Caught Cutts, browns and cutt-bows in that order of
> prevalence. No brookies or pure strain bows. Usually only get 1 brookies for
> every couple of fishing days in past trips, but the lack of rainbows is now
> very noticeable. Several of the browns were kind enough to go aerial for me
> though to help fill that gap.
> >>
> >> The Henry's Fork was still fishing poorly during the day (at least for
> me), as winds, higher temps and no clouds kept the PMD hatches to a minimal
> level. 0/3 in the ranch one day and 1/1 below Ashton (20" bow) on the second>
> day (on foam body #10 golden stone.) Due to familial obligations (i.e.
> because I was fishing all day I had to stick around the cabin in the
> evening,) I did not fish the flav or caddis hatches in the evening.
> >>
> >> Did not fish it, but the salmon flies on the Madison were already below
> Quake Lake when we arrived on the 30th, so lots of pressure (bank and boat)
> up high.
> >>
> >> The Park waters were all in shape. Fished the Lamar (OK for cutts to
> 17-18" on stone fly dries and doublewing attractors) and Slough Creek - good
> for cutts, 'bows and cuttbows. Lucked out in that the one cloudy day of the
> vacation was on Slough Creek, so a decent number of PMD's, and Drakes were
> popping. Also saw some larger spinners that may have been Brown Drakes or
> Grey Drakes (tail length >3x body length), but saw only the PMD and Green
> Drake dun's on the water. Some smaller Flav. spinners showed in the
> afternoon, but the fish were still looking for PMD cripples. Caught fish to
> 21" on PMD and Green Drake cripples. One thing to note on both the Lamar and
> Slough Creek - this is a great year for Deer flies and I lost a lot of skin
> for not having insect repellant in my vest (applied at the truck before
> leaving, wore off of many areas before the day was through.)
> >>
> >> Fished Yellowstone Lake one day, but the callibaetis were really not
> cooking yet and had relatively slow fishing from the beach (1 fish every
> 15'). The lone tuber that I spoke with was not doing much better further
> out. Pattern and retrieve did not seem to matter, as everything was equally
> mediocre.
> >>
> >> Spent an entertaining hour on the upper yellowstone feeding salmon flies
> and golden stones to the cutthroat. I was amazed at the amount of stonefly
> biomass that was crawling out of the river around LaHardy rapids.
> >>
> >> Now its back to the real world...
> >>
> >> Tight Lines,
> >>
> >> Andy
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
