I spent all weekend at the Lower Mountain Fork and pulled this 22" rainbow out of the Evening Hole on a size 20 pheasant tail. I haven't been there in 3 years and I'm surely no expert, but I managed to catch 5 or 6 every day, including this one and another 18"er. Most were caught on the pheasant tail or an orange/yellow egg.

BTW, everything I caught is still there unharmed.

This was the 27,..... more pics later. Just for context, remember I am 6'2, 260lbs and I am NOT shoving him out to the camera

I can attest to Jeff's enormity, he walked past me one day at the EH and it got dark.

Great Fish GJ let's Tee it up sometime when the fish aren't biting.

Denny

thats good size nthere.

I need some advice on recognizing strikes when fishing with a pinch on indicator in quick current like spillway creek. Am I waiting for full on take downs? do you set right away or give it a second or two?

Any advice is welcome!

Thanks for all of the great info in this thread. I have been able to catch some trout on flies I've tied, and this time 2 years ago I had never even touched a fly rod.

When in doubt set the hook. In swifter water I watch that thing like a hawk, a pause, bump, or dip of the indicator could mean a fish.

Anything that you did not do to that indicator, and it twitches moves or whatever as stated above, set the hook. Hooks sets are free

Earlier this week I caught a big, about 22", brown just below Cold Hole. I couldn't figure out what she was doing there. Thought all the browns at the Park were juveniles. Someone told me later that the hatchery accidently loaded some brooder-stock browns one of the last time they stocked and decided to just deliver them rather than try to retrieve them from the tank. Anyway, I caught one of them, I think. It was on a pink Near Deer fished on the bottom. It was somewhat beat up which told me it was probably one of the stockers as a native would know its way around the river better, or so I figure.

Jonbo - did you get a pic of the Brown? The Browns spawned a month or two ago and there may be a straggler left over, but it may be a sick Rainbow as well. I caught a few rainbows that were yellow bellied and had no bright color to them.

Ursus - What TarponFly said, plus if you see it move laterally at all, just raise the rod tip. either a fish or you can continue to drift.

Here's Michael S.'s 23 inch bow. 22 minute fight cut way down.

I donno, man. Looked like a brown to me. Could have been a sick rainbow, I guess. It's nose was pretty torn up. No pic, I don't have a camera and my phone doesn't take very good pictures.

Black spots: rainbow
Red spots: brown

It had red spots. 'Twas a brown, I guess. It's nose was all torn up was its main physical problem. Could that be from guarding its redd (is that what its called?) or was it most likely because it's one of the recent delivery fish (see my comment above about someone-said-someone-said they delivered some brooder-stock browns) and it's just gotten beaten up a lot because it's in a worse neighborhood than it's used to, like the other big stockers, and hasn't learned how to act (so to speak).
jonbo

Near Deers Are on my website. In the store. This is for the people that don't read the whole thread. 90% of your questions will be answered within this thread.

They are basically a woolly bugger on a 1/80 or 1/100 jig head.

Powder paint the jig head of choice.
Tie in marabou half way from head.
Tie in chenille of choice and wrap two times
Whip Finnish and ur done.




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Epic trip Saturday, Feb 1st through Tuesday the 4th! Pulled in Saturday morning to some crowds, but thinned pretty quickly as the day wore on. Hooked a monster bow at the swimming hole on my custom Woolly Bugger I tie, got it to my net and it turned and ran breaking my line. Guessing 25-inch range. Caught this next beauty on the horseshoe by the RV sites drifting an olive Near Deer. Thanks for the flies Carey, they were awesome! Finished Saturday with around 20 fish between the two of us, most in the 14-16-inch range.

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Got to the Evening Hole around 0800 Sunday and there were 3 other fisherman. They stayed about 30-minutes and then my buddy and I had the river, practically the entire park, to ourselves. We did not see another person the entire rest of the day on Evening Hole, the Bluffs, Cold Hole or Lost Creek! Caught my personal best (23") on a pink micro egg fished under an olive Near Deer.

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My buddy also caught his personal best using a fly he created just messing around one night on the vise. Basically a big scary version of a soft hackle with a bit of a tail! Fished Evening Hole and the Bluffs pretty much all day and ended with about 25-30 fish between the two of us. All were in the 18-23 inch range! The rain and cold on Saturday and Sunday was brutal, but the quality of fish and lack of pressure was well worth it.

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Monday brought warm temperatures and sunny skies and the fish were nuts for my buddy's original fly. Landed another 20 plus fish between the two of us including this chunk below. A great trip full of the best fish I have ever caught at Beavers Bend!

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