| Date: Monday January 18, 1999 9:30
a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
River Conditions-- 8 inches high, very slight taint. This river has a very strong current
at this water level and is tricky to wade. Thank God for cleated boots.
Weather- temp. @55, fairly windy, mostly sunny
Fish caught-- ten rainbows, 10-16 inches and two browns, one chunky 16 incher and one
hefty twenty-two inch beauty.
Flies and methods used- lrg. brown and larger rainbows caught in
deeper channels on #8 dark brown crayfish pattern with short 4lb leader, drifted then
stripped in swing, using sinking tip line and lead core leader-sink and BB shot on leader.
Smaller brown caught on #12 prince nymph and smaller rainbows
caught on either #10 or #14 prince nymphs, floating line, 2lb. tippet or #10 olive and
black woolly-bugger(these were drifted then stripped in swing, as with crayfish, less
weight).
Ken M.
St. Louis, MO
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