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Fishing Report: North Fork May 20, 2005

 

May 20, 2005 by Tim Eubanks, Little Rock, Arkansas

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We had a great time and will be back.

We saw some huge rainbows from the cabin down to the first bridge.

The bigger of the two fish was caught in the shoal below The Falls on river left.

I was using a #8 weighted olive leech (that I'd tied, so it has no name) on 6x tippet.. I had caught one just below the falls on that fly as well.

The trout in the photo is easily the biggest trout I've landed on a fly rod. It made several drag-screaming runs and magnificent jumps before it gave out.


Tim Eubanks

The smaller of the two (in canoe) was caught not far below the Tree House; cabin as we floated.

I was in the back of the canoe and using spinning gear, since steering a canoe and fly fishing at the same time is near impossible to do.

I caught several nice rainbows of that size down to Blair Bridge on a white rooster tail., even though there were several other canoes.

Like I mentioned, we saw several huge rainbows running scared from canoes.

I have to believe that if one fished during the week or during low canoe traffic times that the fish would be much easier to entice into a strike.

My friend in the front of the canoe landed a nice rainbow on a zug-bug I think. Our wives both caught goggle eye on spinning gear as well.

Again, we really enjoyed our stay and plan to return in the fall.

Tim Eubanks - Little Rock, Arkansas.

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