Well, due to the cold front, we decided not to fish for crappie and just go fly fishing again. Howard went last year and had a ball, so off we went. Left Plano, TX at 5 am and got to the river at 730am. Fish were deep in the morning and Near Deers were landing a lot of fish in the deeper pockets. At about 9am, a really great hatch started.
The Blue Wingged Olives were everywhere. At any given moment, you could grab one out of the air. My dry fly BWO was one size to big and they, the trout, ignored it, except for 2 curious little guys.
After a lot of lookers and no takers, I went to the truck and tied up some BWO dry flies in the
right size, as well as some grey RS2's size #22.
After tying up some flies for 15-20 mins, we hit the river again. A lot of times we would lose site of our dry flys, due to all the hatching ones. The hatch stopped at about 2 pm, so we used the RS2's and finished the day at 4 pm. Home by 645pm.
Caught more Browns on drys than Rainbows.
There are some gigantic fish in there right now. Biggest I have seen in a long time there..... Hooked one over 25 inches easy. One of the old timers walking by said he thinks its at least 27-28, in the rapids at the EH. He shook the barbless hook right out. The next day I found the exact fish, big white spot on tail, in the rapid at the end of LC. He was chasing all the fish around and not to fond of eating anything.
From the upper end of the EH all the way to the rd at Cold Hole, are huge fish swimming around. We found holding fish in the craziest spots. Places people almost step over cutting thrugh the creek. A lot of the monsters have thier nose in a bush or they have to much structure around them to drift a fly to them. Bait fishers wont be able to get to them if they dont move out of the spots. I think a couple of them might be on beds, cant see the whole fish to be able to tell. But they all stayed in the same spot all day and never moved.
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