The Tale of Two Sections of River.

 

I got to the shores of one of our states stocked streams and decided to go high above the lake. The water was a nice deep emerald, green color with strong flow. This would will be amazing to swing today. No bobbers were used on this day!

I was determined to get a trout to feed up while using my Deer Creek 11ft - 5wt switch rod that a has a grain window of 250-450.  This is one of the set ups I used in Montana this past summer. I paired it up with a 325 grain skagit short and the tip was a 10-foot clear intermediate with a sink rate of 1.5”/second.

I only threw one pattern today and it was the tungsten bead-head soft hackles.

After I figured how to time my casting stroke with the speed of the water and dropped the fly into the run it was on. They were all super lethargic and was all in the range of 6-9” long. I brought five to hand and that has been the most I have brought to hand in years!

The flow was perfect and I would leave the upper stretches to head below the lake.  This would be a disappointment to say the least. She was having mud issues and had a lot of silt in the water column. 

I walked to the dam to the first riffle and swung flies to the frog water.  I picked up and fished through the campground. Although I would not hook anything other than three trees and river weeds, I was done for the day.