The King of Peppers only had one in his box. I find that hard to understand.
Mike On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:54 PM, <bambot...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Well after almost two years of very little fishing I finally got on the > river and had one of those real good days. They have been running a lot of > water since they shut down in March when the guys were here for the Sowbug. > I did get a few times that I fished from the dock with high water and did > fairly well. Yesterday they shut down because of flooding downriver and will > be shut down for a few days. I have a friend visiting from California who > has never been here. Just his good lick to hit it like yesterday. We headed > up to Tucker Shoals about 8 AM., Forecast was for rain and high winds. The > bend at Tucker is kind of protected by a ridge and trees so we could > tolerate it well for a while. I started out with a Green soft hackle. Picked > up a trout or two but they were not really interested in it. Changed over to > my Still Born Emerger and from the first cast with it I was catching some > real nice Rainbows up to 15". They stopped hitting the emerger so I switched > over to a Peacock and Bronze. Again I caught trout from the first cast till > it too would not work. Changed over to a small Black Midge. Same here, they > would hammer it for a while then ignore it. Headed up the river above my > friend and tied on a Chili Pepper. From the first cast I started taking > trout of some nice large sizes up to18 and 19 ". Finally I hooked into one > that was the largest for the day butI did not land it. It was bigger than my > 19" landing net and I could not keep it from falling out. I tried to slide > my fingers down the tippet to the hook to give it a twist out but the trout > made a good shake and broke off. That was the only Chili Pepper I had with > me. I tied on another Peacock and and Bronze and fished till the wind got so > bad that we had to quit. Tom and I had caught over 30 trout each. I stopped > in the middle of this message to go out again but today it was a whole > different story. I had called another fishing buddy to go with us late > afternoon, Dean is a trout magnet. He only fishes small midges in sz 20 and > smaller and uses an indicator Well he made Tom and I look sick. I could not > buy a bite on several flies while he was hooking up every time I looked up. > He was doing that till the water started rising , the dam had turned on one > unit. Dean caught 34 trout. Dean had rigged me up with a sz 20 Zebra Midge > like he was using. I did not even get a hit on it.I guess I am just not a > indicator fisherman. Removed all of this and tied on my Stillborn emerger > and caught six trout, Two browns, three Rainbows and one Cutthroat in > about 30 minuets. Several flies we had used yesterday would not even get a > tap today. > Arkansas Tony > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
