A Quick Update

Posted on March 15th, 2012 - 9:03 pm

by Andy Roth in Trout Stream Reports, Wisconsin (Western)

The last two days have been nothing short of fantastic. The trout are fat and sassy. They are eating most any reasonable pattern. The weather has been basking heaven. The waters are perfect. What more can I say. Oh, the trout are fat. They have been eating a lot. Stones, midges and a few Blue wings have been in the air. The fish on top have been sparse at best. The boys and girls are eating sub-surface. Go down under.

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Northhike said,

in March 15th, 2012 at 11:46 pm

Yep…..was out today. Lots of big boys. Stones were out in full force and floating down the stream with little to no rise….if the did rise it was not for stones.

BenL said,

in March 16th, 2012 at 10:54 am

Andy,

Skipped out of work yesterday afternoon, and totally concur with your post on the great fishing.

The Rush charmed me as always, and I tagged a few nice fishing fishing drys exclusively.

That said, some of the fish were absolutely crushing black stones on the surface. I had nothing in my box to resemble those big beauties in a dry variety.

Do you have a good recipe for the bench? If so, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks for all info and great posts.

Andy Roth said,

in March 17th, 2012 at 9:36 am

Ben
Believe it or not my best dry pattern for these early larger stones is a Peacock Caddis. I tie it with a slim peacock body and it has been a favorite of mine year round since my friend John Mowery turned me on to it. Unfortunately I rarely see the fish respond to these stones on the surface. Good job at finding where those bugs(probably egg layers come back to land on the water. Keep that spot in your memory bank and go back to it each year for that action. Here is a look at the basic pattern.

Andy Roth said,

in March 17th, 2012 at 9:48 am

Northhike
I have had a number of reports of anglers fishing dries to fish eating stones. I know these insects have to come back to the water to lay their eggs but I also understand that stoneflies for the most part, crawl out of the water to hatch and do not drift or swim and emerge like mayflies do. Their probably are certain locations on the stream where the egg layers come back to. I have just not been lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time to see it happen and be totally sure the rising trout were exclusively eating stoneflies.

bsmo said,

in March 17th, 2012 at 12:35 pm

i also like a caddis fly for something dry when there are a lot of black stones out. try a simple one with a black deer hair wing and some black hackle

Max said,

in March 17th, 2012 at 4:42 pm

Andy,
Have you been seeing any good hatches of BWO’s? All the ones I have seen have been very sporadic with few rising fish and the fish that do rise are pretty small.
Thanks

Andy Roth said,

in March 18th, 2012 at 12:30 pm

Max
Bugs in the air, lack of interest in them. sub-surface feeding for the fish is probably more economical, calorie wise for them right now.

Max said,

in March 18th, 2012 at 6:15 pm

Ya thats what I was thinking. I’m just very eager to catch some trout on dries. Fished again for most of the day today. Caught around 25 browns and brookies. Mostly fished the lower kinni and I explored a little more down stream of the lower dam. Caught most of my fish on size 18 pheasant tail emerger, 18 red copper john, and zebra midges and WD-40. The fish didn’t really seem to want anything bigger than a size 18.

Tom said,

in March 19th, 2012 at 12:08 pm

With all this fantastic weather we’re experiencing it might be a good time for a refresher on river etiquette.

Andy Roth said,

in March 24th, 2012 at 12:27 am

Tom
Did you run into some bad etiquette?

Andy Roth said,

in March 24th, 2012 at 12:29 am

Max
That is interesting. Were the fish fat, I mean did they appear to have full bellies? Sounds like a great day.

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