Fished the pond yesterday on a cool moderately windy day. Excellent fishing from 9am to about noon and then very slow. Netted 5 large holdover fish, 1 Tiger, 1 huge brown and 3 rainbows. Sorry no pictures afraid of losing new iPhone off my float tube. Olive crystal bead head wooly buggers with intermediate sinking line and floating line with damsel fly nymphs worked best. Some success with various dry flies attracting smaller fish. No surface activity probably due to the wind.

Good news I did not see the river otter or the osprey. I did see the hawk.

Sore mouths?

Yesterday (Tuesday) the day after Memorial Day weekend my dad & I spent the morning at the FRC.  I think there may have been some sore mouths from the weekend because although weather was perfect, overcast and a light breeze, we only had action from the small guys.  We did catch one that was 15" but the rest were the recent plants.

Almost all were on a size 20 spent midge.  A couple on black bugger and olive bugger.

There is a nesting hawk in the pine tree midway along the north shore.  Maybe hawks will make it less hospitable to osprey?  Although there were two osprey present much of the morning.  Even saw one tuck and dive into the water in an attempt to get a fish--hopefully a bluegill--that was unsuccessful.  Easy to distinguish hawk from osprey--osprey has mostly white feathers in front and on its face with dark circles around the eyes.

Sibling Adventure

I came to the FRC 5/23 with one of my brothers and one of my sisters.  We fished from 5-9pm.  Winds were light. Mostly cloudy.  Somewhat chilly--the mountain passes had traction tire advisories this morning.

Kristi with  a small one

Sister Kristi discovered the little family secret--her brothers lose a lot of fish and miss strikes for even more.  Lots of little guys striking.  All of us caught fish (eventually).  Lots of surface activity--feeding on about size 28 midges.

My biggest rainbow ever at the FRC

We fished floating, intermediate, and sink-tip lines and had action on all of them.  Black bugger, green bugger were what my siblings were most effective with.  I used prince nymph, chironomid, and size 20 spent midge.  I landed this 26" rainbow on the spent midge.

Tiger trout measures 18"--photographer doesn't know how to use "zoom" but I'm happy to have the photo.

We also found a tiger.  Saw one osprey.  Saw otter briefly across the pond on the surface once.  Seeing lots of little fish eating on the surface let me know he hasn't decimated the population (yet).

If you haven't made it over yet, come on over.

Saturday, Monday

Fished Saturday 5/18 with friends and Monday 5/20 with my dad.  I was successful with chronomid Sadurday, prince nymph Monday.  Others had success with green wooly bugger and black wooly bugger.  Intermediate line and sink tip were what was used.  Wind howling Saturday, but did okay anyway.  A couple to 19" and 10 small ones.  Fished noon-2:00.  Monday fished 10-1:00 and had three 14-15" and a dozen small ones.  Very bright calm day, saw the shadow of the boat and lines spook numerous fish.  Water clarity is crystal clear and water temp was 62 degrees.
Rob

Rainbows, Tigers, & Browns

Fished 10:30-1:00 today with my dad.  I used intermediate line; he used sink tip.  Overcast conditions.  Wind picked up after 12:00.  Caught fish consistently.  Dad said it was his best trip ever to the FRC.  Fish were from several age classes--most were the brand new plants which kept action going, half a dozen of the intermediate plants (see rainbow photo) ranging 14-17".

I caught two tigers--one 17" between boat launch and feeding raft, the other at the opposite corner that went 18".  They should be getting large enough to start slurping bluegill and size up considerably more.

Dad got the fish of the day in the corner diagonal to the boat launch--a 21" brown.  Tried to get a photo, but keeping the net over the water, the lively fellow went leaping as soon as Dad touched him and out of the net and into the drink and away he went.  My rubber mesh net has measurement scaling on the bottom so I gauged size when I was removing the hook.

Dad caught most of his on a green woolly bugger with a cone head; most of mine were on a small chronomid, but I caught 4 on the black woolly bugger with an orange egg head.  Saw a pair of osprey but no predatory mammals. A great day at the FRC!