Left Shoreline on 8-24 and started fishing RFC about 3:00 PM. I headed for
home the next day about 3:00 PM.
Third cast with a Crackleback fished dry hooked a nice fish that went LDR.
Water is up a bit so boots are quite handy..
Weeds in the water are up a lot. It's a real salad by the lower hatchery.
Reeds and stinging nettles are up to over 6 feet high. The reeds and higher
water prevent access to some of my favorite spots (unless you want to wear
waders) but when I got to the other side I found those places had lots of
water weeds anyway. Somehow I managed to avoid taking a bunch of nettles in
the face but there were close calls.
Air temperature was very nice.
There was some rain and an abundance of wind.
Caught fish from 20 to 22 inches, all on dry flies. Cracklebacks,
stimulators, grass hoppers and double humpies did the job. I had one fish
take an egg pattern in its mouth three times and it never hooked him. I
switched to another egg with a larger hook gap and naturally the fish
wouldn't take that one.
Maybe 6 or 8 others were fishing while I was there. They were mostly fishing
nymphs. One guy had three fish on a small red brassie.
It will be much nicer when the water weeds die off and float away but it can
be fished now with accurate casts and high back casts.
-Bob
