No Body Wet on the Crooked

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No Body Wet on the Crooked

Post by Roadkill » Sun Sep 15, 2024 6:42 pm

Again, my thanks to ronr! 8-)
https://www.flymphforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11642
He tied his variation with a squirrel thorax and made a much neater fly. I tied mine with a sub of Hare Tron since my only squirrel was at home.

Kelly and I fished the Crooked for about 3 hours before and 3 hours after lunch. It was a great day on the water!

I passed a guide and clients and started swinging flies on a riffle upstream from them.

ImageRIMG4093 by William Lovelace, on Flickr

After the guide's party moved on Kelly fished some of the lower riffles drop shotting a fly for the first time as Ron had suggested.
ImageRIMG4095 by William Lovelace, on Flickr

In the morning, I had landed about 9 fish from 7 to 14 inches on that fly and had it broken off by a bigger fish. I replaced my next dropper up my three fly cast with one of ronr's and tied on my Owyhee Spider to compare a similar fly and was catching fish on both.

After lunch I headed farther back upstream. ronr's fly was working it's magic. Kelly was having his best day ever on the river!
ImageRIMG4099 by William Lovelace, on Flickr
My OS picked up the same action and now I was even getting a few on my Transition PMD on top.

By the time I fished down this riffle I had landed 40 fish for the day, I moved back down river toward Kelly and fished my way back across the riffles I had fished in the morning
ImageRIMG4101 by William Lovelace, on Flickr

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Kelly was still having fun as we wrapped up a great time on the river. He had somewhere over 30 fish to hand for the day.
ImageRIMG4103 by William Lovelace, on Flickr

I ended the day with 53 fish to hand, over 20 LDR's and three broken off. The breakoff were all larger fish, one about 18" that I was up close and personal with until he rolled and snapped my 6X trippet. ;) :lol:
He was one that I hooked for the little while I was drop shotting as ronr suggested for bigger fish. :)
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Re: No Body Wet on the Crooked

Post by Partsman » Sun Sep 15, 2024 6:57 pm

Beautiful pictures and sounds like some great fishing. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: No Body Wet on the Crooked

Post by DUBBN » Mon Sep 16, 2024 12:07 pm

Heck yes, Bill. Awesome report. Thank you for taking me along!!!
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Re: No Body Wet on the Crooked

Post by DarrellP » Mon Sep 16, 2024 3:33 pm

That makes me jealous! Beautiful river.
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Re: No Body Wet on the Crooked

Post by Wabisabi » Tue Sep 17, 2024 11:10 pm

Headed there tomorrow.
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Re: No Body Wet on the Crooked

Post by Roadkill » Wed Sep 18, 2024 8:53 pm

8-) Good luck on the river! :)
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Re: No Body Wet on the Crooked

Post by ronr » Fri Sep 20, 2024 6:24 pm

the water that Roadkill fished last week was swarming with anglers today... who knew this forum was so widely read? Consequently, we had to fish second choice water and found a healthy hatch of mayflies. Naturally, i was rigged to Euro nymph... and got no touches...so totally rerigged, put on the soft hackles mentioned by Bill.. and promptly began to catch fish. Continued for the next couple hours, until the winds picked up and the fish went for a nap. But it was a good day.. not wall hangers, but a nice day on the Crooked Roadkill!
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