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Tying over this past week.

jarredbehrendt — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:08:49 GMT

I have spent a fair amount of time this past week doing some tying and studying the art of tying.

So far this is what I have come up with:

This is a Kiwi muddler, I am trying to get used to spinning deer hair for heads but, this one seemed to turn out ok.

Here is a modified version of the Kiwi, this one incorperates maribou instead of the Rabbit though. The useage of the mylar based chenille is quick and easy to tie. The fly should undullate well in the water.

Here is a new take on an older pattern that I tie called the fry-guy. This one incorperates the use of UV wader repair to form the eggsack. Pretty sweet looking fly and it only takes about 45 seconds to tie (15 of that is on the UV).

Heres a new one for me, this is a Clouser Pattern known as the Clouser Rattler. It is an easy tie that incorperates a rattle into mylar tubing that makes up the belly of the fly (it rides hook up). This pattern can be tied in a variety of different colors to suite any light or clarity situation.

The Clouser Deep Minnow, a staple in any fishermans flybox. I had the opportunity to read Clouser's Flies and took quite a bit of knowledge from it. The simpliest things that I had been overlooking were easy fixes that have allowed me to improve my tying, for one, dont overcrowd the hook. Secondly, dont use too much material, sparser is better.

This fly is a woolly bugger that is tied with peacock herl. There are a few reasons behind me tying this fly. The first reason is because I wanted to do a bunch of dubbing loops and learn to use them well (this also makes the fly extremely durable), the second reason is that I had recently read an article (a study rather) that spoke about a fish's eyes ability to distinguish different colors in relation to peacock herl, this has spawned some interest and I am looking forward to doing my own research on the subject!

Once again with the dubbing loop method, this fly body is made from burnt orange squirel dubbing and I plan on calling it "All Hallows Eve" in nature of its coloring. Its a simple fly with a boddy dubbed out of squirel hair and hackeled with a brown grizzly and faced with a black hackle. It looks pretty sweet and I hope the fish think the same!

Here again with the use of peacock and the dubbing loop, this is a prince nymph with a large hackle around the throat of the fly. I also have been working to improve my ability to use goose biots as well.

Here is the Alaska Mary Ann, epoxied, or rather UV'd. This pattern I tied for a christmas gift that will be made into an ornament, I just wanted to expand my use of the UV and see how it forms up on tied bodies. The hope is that it will make the bodies much more durable.

Here is another use of the UV, this time to make an egg. So much for fishing beads! This little guy looks way more realistic and qualifies as a fly, I just hope that it doesnt result in deep hooking. To make this fly I just built up layers of UV with the second to last layer I markered it up, added an eye, and then finished it off with one more layer to give it a very realistic appearance. The only issue that I have with this fly is that the hook is oversized, I think I will tone that down a couple sizes.

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I have been dilligent about learning some better techniques and practicing them. The majority of the flies I have been tying are focused on spinning deer hair, dubbing and building wings amongst other things. I fully intend to work on learning to tie dry flies and to be able to tie smaller flies (currently I dont go below 18).

Chadron 2009

jarredbehrendt — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:10:14 GMT

Pics from our 2009 Chadron Trip:
Myself, Renee and her father made our bi-annual trip out to Chadron for opening firearm deer this year. Renee may have been the only one to get a deer but it was a relaxing change of pace for all of us.

First Day:

Elk Herd:

Grouse:

The Money Shot:

Verdigre Creek October 2009

jarredbehrendt — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:33:33 GMT

Made the trip to Verdigre Creek with Qtip, Dennis and Josh. We did fairly well catching several fish and working almost the entire fishable public stretch.

Here's some pics:

The morning started with me and Qtip blazing through lots of water and not catching much. After we hooked up with the other two (who had already caught several fish) we got a few pointers and put ourselves up on the board. Patience is something that I definately need some work on.

Josh and Dennis probably did the best catching 12 and 14 fish of decent size (most were 10-12 inches), Qtip caught 1 rainbow and 1 brown (the only brown caught), I ended up catching 13 fish but 8 of them were pretty small.

We all hit the lake afterward and did our best catching gills and largemouth. It turned out to be a great day.

With adding in what Qtip and I caught the night before (50 gills) this brings my totals too:

Shovelnose sturgeon 1
SMB 3
Redear Sunfish 27
Yellow Bullhead 3
Skipjack Herring 1
Quilback 1
Shortnose Gar 1
Goldeye 2
Sauger 1
Black Bullhead 1
White Perch 2
Freshwater Drum 3
White Bass 3
Walleye 5
Brook Trout 3
Brown Trout 1
Greenback Cutthroat 3
Snake River Cutthroat 4
Yellow Bass 4
Blue Cat 2
Shiner 2
Channel Cat 24
Wipers 18
LMB 60
Green Sunfish 51
Rainbow Trout 54
Hybrids 189
Gills 919
Crappie 671
Total Catch this year= 2059!

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Klamath Dam Removals to Start in 2010

jarredbehrendt — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:11:28 GMT

Plan Outlines Removal of Four Dams on Klamath River

By JESSE McKINLEY
Published: September 30, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO � A draft plan to remove four aging dams along the Klamath River in Oregon and California was released Wednesday, a long-awaited step toward ending a protracted dispute over the waterway.
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Iron Gate Dam near Hornbrook, Calif., is one of four that would be removed from the Klamath River. The dams are used to generate electricity but have been the subject of a protracted dispute.

The Klamath dams, built from 1918 to 1961 along an upstream stretch of the river, are owned by PacifiCorp, which uses them to generate electricity. But they have angered Indian tribes along the river, as well as fishermen and environmentalists, who blamed them for a decline in salmon populations and subsequent economic hardships.
Last year, federal and other officials announced a nonbinding agreement to remove the dams, and Wednesday�s draft plan added a specific, nuts-and-bolts dimension to that agreement. In releasing the draft plan, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called the Klamath �one of the most challenging water issues of our time.�
Competing interests have long debated how to manage the Klamath, a river whose salmon populations once rivaled any in the world. Environmentalists argue that the fish populations have declined because of the dams preventing upstream spawning, while farmers have pleaded for more water for irrigation and others for more electric power.
The federal government has often played the unhappy role of referee. In 2002, environmentalists asserted that a significant die-off of fish had resulted from a diversion of water to farmers that was ordered by the Interior Department. Four years later, fishermen complained when low levels of salmon in the river led to government restrictions on commercial fishing.
The draft plan, which was developed by representatives from about two dozen federal, state and tribal agencies, environmental groups and irrigators in discussions with officials from PacifiCorp, will go to stakeholders and the public for review.
Kirk Miller, the deputy secretary and chief counsel of California Natural Resources Agency, which represented the state in negotiations, said he hoped for approval by year�s end.
Under the agreement, the Interior Department would study the cost and environmental impact of removing the dams, including the effect on fish populations and downstream river conditions, to help Mr. Salazar make what he called �a full informed decision.� In a nod to PacifiCorp, the company would continue to operate the dams until their removal and would not be liable for any effects of the demolition.
Greg Abel, the company�s chief executive, said in a statement that �this is a balanced and reasonable outcome that best protects the interests of our customers,� as well as �helping to peacefully resolve numerous conflicts in the Klamath basin.�
About $200 million of the estimated $450 million cost of removing the dams would be covered by a small surcharge on PacifiCorp�s customers, most of whom reside in Oregon. The rest of the money would come from the company�s customers in California and the sale of bonds there.
The federal government would be required to prepare timetables for the dams� removal and plans to reduce cost overruns and dispose of sediment and debris.
�The agreement calls on each of us to do our part,� said Gov. Theodore R. Kulongoski of Oregon, where lawmakers have approved the PacifiCorp surcharge.
Mr. Salazar has until March 2012 to decide whether to go forward with the plan. If approved, removal of the dams would begin in 2020.
�We haven�t seen salmon in our country for 90 years,� said Jeff Mitchell, a council member for the Klamath Tribes of Oregon. �This agreement represents our best chance of finally bringing the salmon home.�

Grayling Possibly Being Listed

jarredbehrendt — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:09:12 GMT

US Fish & Wildlife to Reconsider Grayling for Endangered Status

By Marshall Cutchin on October 1, 2009 8:11 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The case of the fluvial arctic grayling, which was denied Endangered Species protection in 2007 (the Bush administration's Julie MacDonald, who later resigned after an investigation by the Interior Department's inspector general, had argued that there was no significant difference between the fluvial grayling and its close relatives) will be reconsidered by U.S. Fish & Wildlife, according to court papers filed yesterday. Sadly, the last remaining population of fluvial grayling in the lower 48 U.S. states exists only in Montana's Bighole River, where agricultural dewatering has all but wiped out the last remaining fish. "Studies show that the Montana fluvial arctic grayling is genetically distinct from populations in Canada and Alaska, and genetically and behaviorally distinct from grayling lake populations in Montana and other states." Eve Byron in the Helena Independent Record.

Went out after school for a bit

jarredbehrendt — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:18:07 GMT

Just hit the local hole but did manage to catch quite a few fish (they were all pretty small). Tried SB out for a short while but the lake was really murky, did manage a small bass the short while I was there though.

I ended up doing ok with 1 lmb, 14 bluegill, 8 green sunfish, and 30 hybrid sunfish. I have now finally crossed the 2000 mark, hopefully I will be able to get into some more crappie and decent gills before the season is over, I am looking forward to hitting the trout pretty hard soon.

This years totals so far:
Shovelnose sturgeon 1
SMB 3
Redear Sunfish 27
Yellow Bullhead 3
Skipjack Herring 1
Quilback 1
Shortnose Gar 1
Goldeye 2
Sauger 1
Black Bullhead 1
White Perch 2
Freshwater Drum 3
White Bass 3
Walleye 5
Brook Trout 3
Brown Trout 1
Greenback Cutthroat 3
Snake River Cutthroat 4
Yellow Bass 4
Blue Cat 2
Shiner 2
Channel Cat 24
Wipers 18
LMB 60
Green Sunfish 51
Rainbow Trout 41
Hybrids 189
Gills 859
Crappie 671
Total Catch this year= 2010!

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Fishing with Dennis 9/21/2009

jarredbehrendt — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:20:34 GMT

Went out with my friend Dennis today to do some wiper fishing, being as I have never caught a wiper I figured that he is the guy to put me onto some:2thumbsup:.

The morning started with thunder storms and we debated whether or not we would even be able to go, after a bit of a nap though the weather seemed to clear up a bit and Dennis was calling me to get over there so we could go.

We got onto the water at about 830am and headed to his favorite spot, and begun casting and working the shoreline.

After about a half hour he had his first one on and it ended up going at about 10". Several flips later and I had hooked into my first one, unfortuneatly I forgot about the anchor line and ended up loosing the first one. About three casts later I had another one, this time remembering the anchor I was able to boat it!:xImNumber1:

Though it wasnt a monster (only about 10-11") it still was a trophy as it was the first wiper that I had ever caught.

The remainder of the morning we hammered them, catching one after another. I ended up boating 12 by 11 am and then it was time for Dennis to go.

The largest one that I caught was this guy, he was just over 14":

Once back on shore I worked the shoreline and managed 6 more, thinking that it was a good day I changed up my routine and ended up landing 11 crappie, 22 gills and one tiny LMB.

I would have to say that it was a great day fishing (morning rather), and I definately got what I set out for.

This years totals so far:
Shovelnose sturgeon 1
SMB 3
Redear Sunfish 27
Yellow Bullhead 3
Skipjack Herring 1
Quilback 1
Shortnose Gar 1
Goldeye 2
Sauger 1
Black Bullhead 1
White Perch 2
Freshwater Drum 3
White Bass 3
Walleye 5
Brook Trout 3
Brown Trout 1
Greenback Cutthroat 3
Snake River Cutthroat 4
Yellow Bass 4
Blue Cat 2
Shiner 2
Channel Cat 24
Wipers 18
LMB 59
Green Sunfish 43
Rainbow Trout 41
Hybrids 159
Gills 845
Crappie 671
Total Catch this year= 1957

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Fishing with Q-Tip on 9-3-09

jarredbehrendt — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:08:54 GMT

Headed a bit west on thursday morning, we first started at Cottonmill trying to hook up a pike or two. After several hours of working on it we turned up nothing but a couple bass and gills.

Our next stop was at Windmill on our way to Waraxe, windmill turned out to be fairly good on small gills but didnt produce a whole lot more.

So then Jon and I headed to War Axe, we had spoke about this one all day due to it having smallies. Once we got there we started working the shore using various techniques. After several minutes I produced my first smallie, about a pound and a half. I then moved on working the shore and go into a couple reel good schools of redears, and one more smallie.

What a great day, it was an awesome day out!

This day helped my yearly totals;

This years totals so far:
Shovelnose sturgeon 1
SMB 2
Redear Sunfish 27
Yellow Bullhead 3
Skipjack Herring 1
Quilback 1
Shortnose Gar 1
Goldeye 2
Sauger 1
Black Bullhead 1
White Perch 2
Freshwater Drum 3
White Bass 3
Walleye 5
Brook Trout 3
Brown Trout 1
Greenback Cutthroat 3
Snake River Cutthroat 4
Yellow Bass 4
Blue Cat 2
Shiner 2
Channel Cat 24
LMB 48
Green Sunfish 43
Rainbow Trout 41
Hybrids 159
Gills 805
Crappie 660
Total Catch this year= 1876:flyman:

Got out two days later locally and caught 10 lmb's, 1 smallie, and 18 gills. This makes the count change slightly:

This years totals so far:
Shovelnose sturgeon 1
SMB 3
Redear Sunfish 27
Yellow Bullhead 3
Skipjack Herring 1
Quilback 1
Shortnose Gar 1
Goldeye 2
Sauger 1
Black Bullhead 1
White Perch 2
Freshwater Drum 3
White Bass 3
Walleye 5
Brook Trout 3
Brown Trout 1
Greenback Cutthroat 3
Snake River Cutthroat 4
Yellow Bass 4
Blue Cat 2
Shiner 2
Channel Cat 24
LMB 58
Green Sunfish 43
Rainbow Trout 41
Hybrids 159
Gills 823
Crappie 660
Total Catch this year= 1905

Atlantics Return to Paris.

jarredbehrendt — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:05:00 GMT

From The Times

August 12, 2009

Charles Bremner in Paris

div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited {color:#06c;} It is not quite a return to the days when dolphins and even whales were seen making their way upstream to Paris, but the Seine is welcoming back at least one long-lost visitor: the Atlantic salmon.
A fish that in the Middle Ages abounded in the river is returning in healthy numbers after efforts to clean the polluted waters.
�There are more and more fish swimming up the Seine. This year the numbers have exceeded anything we could have imagined,� said Bernard Breton, the secretary-general of the National Federation for Fishing. �I would not be surprised if we had passed the 1,000 mark.�
It may be a while, however, before le pav� de saumon Notre Dame becomes a local delicacy. Salmon may be allowed to frolic in the Seine but levels of pesticide, lead and bacteria remain too high for people to risk it.
Times Archive 1897 Can the Thames again become a salmon river?

Probably the last salmon taken in the Thames was that caught near Monkey Island in 1823 and sent to the King at Windsor

Letter to the editor

Letter: Salmon fishing in the Thames

Related Links

Salmon under Tower Bridge? Maybe in 2020

Celebrating sand by the Seine in Paris

Anglers mourn death of 'celebrity' carp

Even overheated patrons of Paris Plage, the summer beach on the Right Bank, are warned to stay clear of the waters in which Louis XIV used to take his mistress for moonlight dips.
Those who ignore the rules are taken to hospital for checks once they have been hauled out by police.
Not so long ago, the Seine was connected to the famed sewers that the writer Victor Hugo called �a world of slime without human form�.
Efforts have been made in the past 30 years to end the fouling of the Seine with organic pollution and chemical run-off from industry and agriculture. Most species of fish had disappeared from the city�s waters by the 1920s.
Today the surface is cleaned regularly and there is a system that pumps oxygen into fish-friendly stretches when floodwaters run into the river.
Bertrand Delano�, the Mayor of Paris, called the return of the Atlantic salmon a triumph for the Seine purification effort after the INRA, the leading state research institute, issued its study on the fish.
A statement on the mayor�s website said: �Without any project to reintroduce them we see that several species of migratory fish, including salmon, have come back up the Seine. This is a sign of a clear improvement in the quality of water in the river.�
The gradual return of about 30 species of fish � the Atlantic salmon made a tentative appearance a few years ago � has encouraged an urban angling boom. At weekends the �le Saint Louis, opposite Notre Dame, and the Left Bank by the Eiffel Tower are thick with anglers casting for bream, carp, pike, perch, catfish and sea trout.
�They do not eat them,� Stephanie Hofer, of the fishing federation, told The Times. �They throw them back � but that�s what 80 per cent of the anglers in France do.�
Central Paris hosted the world angling championship in 2001. No salmon were caught and few have since been hooked by the registered 7,000 fishermen in Paris.
The return of the salmon was spectacularly illustrated last October when a 15�lb (7kg) fish was caught in Suresnes, on the western downstream edge of the capital.
From genetic samples and age measurements, the INRA reported that all the Atlantic salmon were found to have swum up, or back up, the Seine via the estuary to the Channel in Le Havre after months or years in the sea. Some were born in French rivers, others farther afield.
The researchers said that the return was significant because the Atlantic salmon were bioindicators � creatures whose choice of habitat indicate a healthy environment.

2009 Red River trip

jarredbehrendt — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:35:48 GMT

Well, I have wrapped up my '09 Red River trip. We spent a week in the Drayton area and as luck would have it, during the catfish spawn:(.

The fishing was extrememly slow the entire trip and started to heat up a little on our last day. The most fish boated a day between our two boats was 6! The largest fish caught (not by me) was 22lbs.

The fishing was tough and the fish were only doing takes similar to what you would expect a 8" bullhead to do, detection was key and you had to keep your eye on your rod the entire time.

This was also my first and last time using braid on the river, I could not be any more disappointed with its performance. It floats far too well and caused me innumberable tangles, after switching back to mono I had 75% more hookups!

Anyhow, heres to next year (if I am still around) and here are some of the pics that I took while fishing:

Jim with a nice 12

Surprisingly we caught several of these

Justins first Cat

20" Eye

My only cat worth a pic.

Bobby with a nice 15

Ended up with a mooneye, walleye, 2 yellow bullheads, and 4 channel cats. Not really helping me reach my 3000 goal but at least they are additions.

This years totals so far:
Shovelnose sturgeon 1
Redear Sunfish 1
Yellow Bullhead 3
Skipjack Herring 1
Quilback 1
Shortnose Gar 1
Goldeye 2
Sauger 1
Black Bullhead 1
White Perch 2
Freshwater Drum 3
White Bass 3
Walleye 5
Brook Trout 3
Brown Trout 1
Greenback Cutthroat 3
Snake River Cutthroat 4
Yellow Bass 4
Blue Cat 2
Shiner 2
Channel Cat 24
LMB 46
Green Sunfish 40
Rainbow Trout 41
Hybrids 159
Gills 782
Crappie 660
Total Catch this year= 1796
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Fishing 7/17 and 7/26

jarredbehrendt — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:02:11 GMT

Qtip and I went out and did some fishing, got into a few but had to work fairly hard for most of them (I hate this time of year). I did however get to catch my first Redear Sunfish which adds another specie to my caught list. I ended up ok for the day with about 30 fish caught.

It was fairly confusing what they wanted to take, we both tried many patterns and were only marginally sucessful.

This years totals so far:
Shovelnose sturgeon 1
Redear Sunfish 1
Yellow Bullhead 1
Skipjack Herring 1
Quilback 1
Shortnose Gar 1
Goldeye 1
Sauger 1
Black Bullhead 1
White Perch 2
Freshwater Drum 3
White Bass 3
Walleye 4
Brook Trout 3
Brown Trout 1
Greenback Cutthroat 3
Snake River Cutthroat 4
Yellow Bass 4
Blue Cat 2
Shiner 2
Channel Cat 20
LMB 43
Green Sunfish 40
Rainbow Trout 41
Hybrids 159
Gills 747
Crappie 659
Total Catch this year= 1749

7/26 Just went out and hit it alone to catch some cutbait for catfishing today. They were hitting small buggers in black and attacking small black scud representations.
Ended up catching 3 LMB's, one crappie and 35 bluegill.

This years totals so far:
Shovelnose sturgeon 1
Redear Sunfish 1
Yellow Bullhead 1
Skipjack Herring 1
Quilback 1
Shortnose Gar 1
Goldeye 1
Sauger 1
Black Bullhead 1
White Perch 2
Freshwater Drum 3
White Bass 3
Walleye 4
Brook Trout 3
Brown Trout 1
Greenback Cutthroat 3
Snake River Cutthroat 4
Yellow Bass 4
Blue Cat 2
Shiner 2
Channel Cat 20
LMB 46
Green Sunfish 40
Rainbow Trout 41
Hybrids 159
Gills 782
Crappie 660
Total Catch this year= 1788

Fishing 7/13/09

jarredbehrendt — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:57:50 GMT

Got out today with Qtip and Lincoln Lunger and did some fishing. Our first stop was Prarie View, the fishing was pretty slow and we all only caught about 10 fish apiece after about 2 hours of fishing so we decided to move on and try elsewhere.
Our next stop was to the Bear where we got into much better fishing, the bite was topwater when we got there at first. They were taking grizzly hackled wooly buggers with a vengence. I ended up catching tow nice sized yellow bass and a bunch of gills and hybrids. Everyone else got into a fair amount of fish and we all ended up having a pretty decent outing.

This years totals so far:
Shovelnose sturgeon 1
Yellow Bullhead 1
Skipjack Herring 1
Quilback 1
Shortnose Gar 1
Goldeye 1
Sauger 1
Black Bullhead 1
White Perch 2
Freshwater Drum 3
White Bass 3
Walleye 4
Brook Trout 3
Brown Trout 1
Greenback Cutthroat 3
Snake River Cutthroat 4
Yellow Bass 4
Blue Cat 2
Shiner 2
Channel Cat 20
LMB 41
Green Sunfish 40
Rainbow Trout 41
Hybrids 159
Gills 724
Crappie 659
Total Catch this year= 1723
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Gavins Point Allnighter

jarredbehrendt — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:48:21 GMT

Qtip and I went up to Gavins with the intent of camping a nights but mothernature had very different ideas.

On the way up we stopped at Summit to try to get into some gills. I only caught 3 gills and 1 crappie so we didnt stick around very long. QT ended up about the same so it was on to Gavins.

We arrived at about 630pm and got our tents and gear set up. We then proceeded to work allong the bank with our flyrods probing to find where some fish are. After a while QT found some fish and caught a few. We fished the area until Eric showed up and we then got set up to head out with him.

Eric gave us a short briefing on what to expect and how to work the river and we were off. We spent the evening probing different areas and caught a lot of decent fish. I ended up catching 3 white bass, a skipjack herring, a goldeye, a sauger, 3 walleyes, 3 crappie, a shortnose gar, 3 drum, and a channel cat.

This years totals so far:
Shovelnose sturgeon 1
Yellow Bullhead 1
Skipjack Herring 1
Quilback 1
Shortnose Gar 1
Goldeye 1
Sauger 1
Black Bullhead 1
White Perch 2
Freshwater Drum 3
White Bass 3
Walleye 4
Brook Trout 3
Brown Trout 1
Greenback Cutthroat 3
Snake River Cutthroat 4
Yellow Bass 2
Blue Cat 2
Shiner 2
Channel Cat 20
LMB 38
Green Sunfish 36
Rainbow Trout 41
Hybrids 134
Gills 701
Crappie 658
Total Catch this year= 1665
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Colorado Trip

jarredbehrendt — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:33:27 GMT

Renee and I took our first Colorado Trip this past week and I ended up getting into some decent fish. All in all I added some new species; Snake River Cutthroat, Greenback Cutthroat, Brown trout, and Brook trout.

The numbers of fish may not have been high but the fish were very selective. This may have been due to the nature of the small clear streams or the fact that they were building reds at the time.

For the most part all of the fish either hit small (<16) caddis and hares ear imitations. I saw very limited activity on the surface, most of what looked like they were taking emerging midges. They were very small <20.

Here is a link to the pictures from the trip and the origonal post:
http://www.nefga.org/forum/nebraska-...ded-7-7-a.html

This years totals so far:
Shovelnose sturgeon 1
Black Bullhead 1
Walleye 1
Brook Trout 3
Brown Trout 1
Greenback Cutthroat 3
Snake River Cutthroat 4
Yellow Bass 2
Blue Cat 2
Shiner 2
Channel Cat 19
LMB 38
Green Sunfish 36
Rainbow Trout 41
Hybrids 134
Gills 698
Crappie 654
Total Catch this year= 1640
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Fishing 7/6

jarredbehrendt — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:22:51 GMT

Went out to do a bit of fishing with the intent of getting some cat bait. Hit up the Bear and got into some gills and hybrids. Ended up with 13 Gills and 4 Hybrid sunfish in about two hours.

The water was increasingly algae filled, its getting very green and the visibility is down to about 6 inches.

I managed to hook my first kitty on the fly, he took a PTN and came to the surface just long enough to identify himself and then broke me off (damn 4X!).

I did manage to hook and land my first bullhead on the fly, she was following her school of young along the shore and I dabbed the PTN infront of her and she took it! She was about a 12" black bullhead and looked real healthy. This not only marks a first on the fly but also a new species for me entirely!

I plan on getting out a few more times this week if the weather cools a bit, hopefully I can get into some better numbers of fish.

This years totals so far:
Shovelnose sturgeon 1
Black Bullhead 1
Walleye 1
Yellow Bass 2
Blue Cat 2
Shiner 2
Channel Cat 19
LMB 38
Green Sunfish 36
Rainbow Trout 38
Hybrids 134
Gills 698
Crappie 654
Total Catch this year= 1626
*Totals do not include the Colorado Trip.
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