After a brief cool down the rivers of Western Wisconsin are in great shape. The water is mostly clear and a few more fish are coming to the surface for midges. Water temps are in the high 40’s to mid 50’s and the fish are cooperating on a wide variety of patterns from scuds to stone flies to midges. It is a great time to be on the water. There is no magic bullet at this time just check all the water and dead drift reasonably well and you should find a few. Fish are moving about and are most active during the mid-day period.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThanks Andy–I may head out to the Kinni tomorrow and break in my new 3W rod.
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Andy,
I was on the Kinni today and as you say a few on a black copper john, a few on a small pheasant tail and a few on a parachute bwo. The bwo only came off for a couple of hours in mid afternoon. As soon as they did the fish were looking up. Fun time.
Doug
Hi Andy,
Per your post I went on the Rush yesterday – upstream from 465th. Had a pretty good day with 5-6 Browns and a few bonus Brookies. All on nymphs. Some fishing were rising but I was not doing a good job of convincing them. I thought I saw a few Black Caddis in the air….?
I have a question: In a slow section I saw what must have been 30-40 maybe 50 nice fish on the bottom and I could see them flashing right off the bottom as they fed (assuming that was feeding). I tried in vain to get one to hit but no luck.
Any advice on how to approach these fish and should one alter their presentation (no indicator, upstream, laying flat on the ground-ha, etc.)
Thanks for this site by the way.
I will bet for the most part you did not spook them trying to get them to eat. They were probably staged in water deeper than 2 feet. Larva boy may have worked but you have to make sure you are getting deep enough to see the fly travel through the pod of fish. Most likely they were in some sort of holding lie and only eating flies that came very close to them. Small midge larva may have worked as well but the placement of the fly becomes the most important variable. Water and depth is deceptive to the human eye. There is refraction, bending or unbending of light. Because of the angle we veiw fish from they apear shallower then they realy are. It can be quite decieving but you may have needed to be deeper. Just educated guess.
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