Post by Bobby on Jul 7, 2014 8:00:53 GMT -6
Headed to the floodway twice this week. The first trip was the more successful trip of the two and I had a blast watching Brian and Bruce hook up with goldeye one after another. I began to wonder what the problem was for me but Bruce let me in on a secret and showed me a couple patterns that were producing well for him. He was quick to offer me a few different flies to try, and I decided in favor of holding onto them to tie from rather than tying them on and risk losing them. I only caught 2 fish that trip but one was my first ever rockbass. Wasn't large and I had for a second thought it was a bluegill, but we took a few pictures of it and I released it to grow and be caught again.
Being out there with those two was an awesome time for me to just watch and learn. I can't say enough how grateful I am for the help they have willingly provided me over the past few months. I am glad to have met them, along with everyone else at the get together in the winter. I appreciate the help guys and anyone who doesn't know you two is missing out.
The 2nd trip was a last minute plan to meet a couple friends saturday evening. We couldn't find a spot on the shore in the spillway (lesson learned re:weekend fishing) but set up outside the yellow barrels where we had room to cast just outside the spillway. There were a tonne of goldeye being pulled out, and sadly not released, by the gearfishermen but I didn't get any on the fly. The water was moving fast and I didn't have alot of confidence in where I was presenting the fly. We made a move around 9 as people decided to leave and ended up just inside the barricade. The water is now coming out of the spillway fairly quickly and we were still in an area where the main river current was pulling the water out. I tried to find a willing fish for about a half hr before deciding it wasn't gonna happen for me. After I had my gear packed up and was watching the other 2 the guy next to me gets a fish on and is struggling to net his own cat. I went over to help and the second we get it into the net his buddies rod bounces and there's a fish on it. Guy #2 is about 100 yards away at the truck and they both tell me to grab it and set the hook. I ended up landing it, a 35.5" cat. Not sure I can take credit for this fish as I was just the "lucky" guy to be standing there able to grab the rod for them when they asked but it is a cool story either way. It also re-affirmed my interest in fly fishing because although it's an easy way to target these fish, the fight is almost boring in comparison to having a fish on my fly rod...and I haven't caught anything of any real size yet.
There are a tonne of cats in that area of the spillway right now. I am not sure on how to fly fish for them because the current is pretty quick in that particular area but if you know how to get a fly to them you should do very well. I am sure in the 3 hrs we were out I saw over 30 caught, along with about the same number of drum. The goldeye are all very high in the water column and were hitting lures immediately on the sink for the guys who were targetting them.
Being out there with those two was an awesome time for me to just watch and learn. I can't say enough how grateful I am for the help they have willingly provided me over the past few months. I am glad to have met them, along with everyone else at the get together in the winter. I appreciate the help guys and anyone who doesn't know you two is missing out.
The 2nd trip was a last minute plan to meet a couple friends saturday evening. We couldn't find a spot on the shore in the spillway (lesson learned re:weekend fishing) but set up outside the yellow barrels where we had room to cast just outside the spillway. There were a tonne of goldeye being pulled out, and sadly not released, by the gearfishermen but I didn't get any on the fly. The water was moving fast and I didn't have alot of confidence in where I was presenting the fly. We made a move around 9 as people decided to leave and ended up just inside the barricade. The water is now coming out of the spillway fairly quickly and we were still in an area where the main river current was pulling the water out. I tried to find a willing fish for about a half hr before deciding it wasn't gonna happen for me. After I had my gear packed up and was watching the other 2 the guy next to me gets a fish on and is struggling to net his own cat. I went over to help and the second we get it into the net his buddies rod bounces and there's a fish on it. Guy #2 is about 100 yards away at the truck and they both tell me to grab it and set the hook. I ended up landing it, a 35.5" cat. Not sure I can take credit for this fish as I was just the "lucky" guy to be standing there able to grab the rod for them when they asked but it is a cool story either way. It also re-affirmed my interest in fly fishing because although it's an easy way to target these fish, the fight is almost boring in comparison to having a fish on my fly rod...and I haven't caught anything of any real size yet.
There are a tonne of cats in that area of the spillway right now. I am not sure on how to fly fish for them because the current is pretty quick in that particular area but if you know how to get a fly to them you should do very well. I am sure in the 3 hrs we were out I saw over 30 caught, along with about the same number of drum. The goldeye are all very high in the water column and were hitting lures immediately on the sink for the guys who were targetting them.