wm1miller
12-02-2009, 01:16 PM
I had planned to fish the Caney on Monday but the generating schedule sent me to the Elk instead.
I had an OK day; as far as number of fish. (Every day on the river is a good day).
All of my fish were rainbows and under 10", a couple way under, like 7".
Again, I did not find anything that consistently caught fish.
I did catch a few fish on each of the following: Chartreuse Wooly Bugger; Tan Scud; Soft Hackle; Zebra Midge. (And for the first time, maybe ever, did not catch any on an Olive Wooly Bugger).
There was a good hatch of, pardon my lack of scientific names, gnat like bugs. They were very small, like smaller than #28. They were black with clear colored wings. Rises were off and on all afternoon; primarily in shallow water in and around the shoals. Apparently all small fish. I fished a #24 midge that matched the color, trailing a larger dry fly and could not get them to take it. I talked to another gentleman that said that he matched the bugs perfectly and could not get them to take it either.
I am making it a goal is to learn to fish this kind of hatch. I believe that I could have caught a lot of fish if I had known how to approach it.
Other fly fishers had about the same kind of day that I had. One gentleman that counts caught twenty.
A couple of bait casters that were also fishing could not limit.
Don't know if you would call this report positive or negative, but it is the way it is.
In my opinion, still a great place to spend a fall/winter afternoon.
William
I had an OK day; as far as number of fish. (Every day on the river is a good day).
All of my fish were rainbows and under 10", a couple way under, like 7".
Again, I did not find anything that consistently caught fish.
I did catch a few fish on each of the following: Chartreuse Wooly Bugger; Tan Scud; Soft Hackle; Zebra Midge. (And for the first time, maybe ever, did not catch any on an Olive Wooly Bugger).
There was a good hatch of, pardon my lack of scientific names, gnat like bugs. They were very small, like smaller than #28. They were black with clear colored wings. Rises were off and on all afternoon; primarily in shallow water in and around the shoals. Apparently all small fish. I fished a #24 midge that matched the color, trailing a larger dry fly and could not get them to take it. I talked to another gentleman that said that he matched the bugs perfectly and could not get them to take it either.
I am making it a goal is to learn to fish this kind of hatch. I believe that I could have caught a lot of fish if I had known how to approach it.
Other fly fishers had about the same kind of day that I had. One gentleman that counts caught twenty.
A couple of bait casters that were also fishing could not limit.
Don't know if you would call this report positive or negative, but it is the way it is.
In my opinion, still a great place to spend a fall/winter afternoon.
William