Saturday, December 9, 2017

Winter Pattern



I got out for a few hours today, air temperature was 15 degrees at the start. This caused some icing issues but the mono-rig does pretty well even when its that cold.





Fishing was pretty slow at the first location I stopped at. I rotated through plenty of nymph's but those fish weren't having it. I moved upstream to a more reliable winter spot and the fishing turned on. Could it of been the time of day or just that section? Tough to tell. The bows were on the egg pretty good in the deeper slower water. It's hard to identify the slow stuff in that section of river, everything looks so fast. You just need to take your time and really focus on reading the water, once you figure it out usually some fish will come to hand. It always amazes me how close to the bank these fish will lay in the winter. The midges were not coming off yet, I'm hoping this picks up in the next few weeks because usually the catch rate increases when these little guys start popping. The lower section of the Upper River was getting pretty slushed up in ice....we'll see if it locks up completely for the winter in the next few weeks or if we get lucky.








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