Weather: 65-70 Degrees- haze and overcast
Water: dirty brown and cool, low water levels
Hatches: abnormal amount of May Flies
Time: Noon to 9:00 PM
Comments: The long Drive from Rio, in Columbia County was worth it! Between Timber Coulee and Roulands Coulee, I was able to nail many german browns and brookies. From noon until 5:00 PM there was no action and i had not witnessed a fish rise. Around 5:00 PM the fish began to rise to the surface for tan collored may flies and black gnats. I had hooked 12 browns in the first half an hour, but they were all small. (4-8") I was using a size 16 gnat, and a size 12 may fly. There was a "MONSTER" brookie, slamming may flies in the next bend of the river in the faster current. I catwalked down into position, added some fly float to my may fly and put my cast up stream 10 feet above the feeding brookie. nothing. I roll casted a second time and, SLAM, he took it and I ripped the line and he jumped. The fish was between 14-16 inches, just as strong as could be. My 4X tippet snapped after only 2 minutes of fighting the fish and the current. Some were out there is my brook!
ie with my #12 may fly in his lip. As I moved up the river I was able to catch some 10-12" browns in the flats with a royal coachman, size 12. I really missed a lot of hook sets, but that is part of only being a second year fly fisherman, right???? I would not trade this sport in for nothing! Is there trout fishing in the after life? feel free to write me with advice, Matthew!
matthewsnorek@centuryinter.net
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