Rock Cliff Rumble 10-21-09

[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]Three of us floatin' fools hit Rock Cliff on Jordanelle this morning. Myself in my Fat Cat and Anglerdan and Flygoddess in their toons. I was first on the water, about 7:15. Air temp 31 and water temp 52. Cool runnings.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Light breezes from the east...as per usual. Not as much steam as before since the water is cooling. I banged a couple of small trout before first Anglerdan and then Joni showed up to launch. It was a bit slow for a while after that. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I kicked out into 40 feet of water, well past the buoy line, looking for perchy marks on my sonar. Didn't see much of anything at any depth. A lot quieter in the RC arm than usual. Met up with Dan on the way back and did some downloading of info and a few flies for bubble chuckin'. Musta worked. He caught some fish.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Poor Joni. She had some "issues" in getting started today, including forgetting her camera. And, when she brought one of her nice fish close so that I could take a picture for her I messed around waiting for a good angle and the fish did not want to be photographed. It did a backward three and a half from the rainbow position and was gone. In the picture Joni is pointing to where it went.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As usual, Joni waved her magic wand and mesmerized some fishies. We were never close enough for pics after that but she believes she caught more fish than on our last trip to Jordanelle. She does got them dialed in.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I probably caught a half dozen or so, with the two largest going about 18 or 19 inches. Quality fish that really kick my behind on the limber bubble chuckin' rods I use. Had one several inches larger that worked me over for several minutes and then had enough. He did let me have my chawed up fly back though. Mighty thoughty. I only kept one of the two larger fish to take home. All I need for a good meal, with TubeBabe still in Californy.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Only light breezes early, and then settling down to flat calm for awhile. Then the typical westerly blow kicked up just before noon and we had a good excuse to hit the shore...and the restrooms.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Most trout were caught in 20 feet of water or shallower today. Many were taken right on the bottom by dredging with flies. However, there were a few that hit fast moving offerings at mid depth. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Good tune up trip for our Huntington Floatilla on Friday.[/#0000ff]
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[AnglerDan]

The Good ol Master of The Slimy Scaled Kind proved his benevolence once again. After scoulding me for having a store bought fly and laughing at the size of my leader the kind one began to teach. I listened and observed then and after a bribe of a cold V8 for breakfast he gentle handed me some of his killer flys for the days festivities. The rest is in the pics. I had a great time and as usual and The Dude was great company. Missed many more fish than I caught but had fun returning to some troutskies rather than the cats I have been chasing all summer.


Great meeting you FlyGoddess sorry about the rough start to the day but it sounds like you made up for it by putting the smack down on some of those pretty bows.

FYI to the extended archery hunters out there I saw a big bull elk and several deer once I turned off the main highway and headed for Rock Cliffs...Go Get Em boys.
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[albinotrout]

Sounds like a great day on the water. Too bad I had to miss it.
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]You do fine work, Grasshoppah.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]PS. I woulda handed you some flies even without the V8 juice bribe. Glad they worked for ya.[/#0000ff]
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[LloydE]

It looks like you had another successful day at Rock Cliff. Excellent report and pictures. I recognized the little orange fly. Sorry I was unable to make it up there.
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]The fishing was not all that fast and furious, but catching even a couple of those big bodacious bows can make a slow day a fun day.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Looking forward to some faster fishing tomorrow on Huntington. See ya early in the mornin'.[/#0000ff]
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[flygoddess]

It was a great day and worth the late start. I was actually on the water for a little over two hours.....better than nothing for sure.
One fatty right out of the gate followed by 5 more to the net and a bunch of LDR's
No chub again, just fat bows with smallest 17".
Fishing my favorite fly right off the bottom.
Same fly that caught me some beauties on the Berry. It is a keeper!
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]That is a good looking fly. I put it on and tried dredging the bottom by going slower in my tube. Found a sunken tree and lost both the fly and my "Easter egg" bubble. Didn't have it on more than a few minutes so didn't get a chance to test it very well.[/#0000ff]
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[flygoddess]

More where that came from. But I was stripping it quickly. even jerks now and then.

I sat to tie more last night. But, I have been remodeling my house all summer and watching allot of DIY. So I named this (everything but the kitchen sink) fly...."KITCHEN RENOVATIONS"

It starts off with Bill Schiess's "Hot Chocolate" followed by Kelly Galloup's "Egg Suckin' Sculpin" then finished off with Kelly Galloup's "Sex Dungeon".


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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]Whatever happened to "less is more"? Why don't ya just put a split ring on both sides of your fly box, tie the line on one end and a hook on the other. Toss out the whole box and let the fish choose what they want and do a "self service" hookup job?[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I'm hip on the fast movement thing. I watched you trolling around at mach 3.6. No way I can duplicate that from my tube. But, I do occasionally stop, to let the bubble sink deeper and then do a herky jerky retrieve up through the water column. That scored a couple of good fish for me yesterday. And my last fish...one of my biggest...came while I was surfin' and kickin' in on the wind. Going pretty fast in shallower water when that bad boy hit and I thought I had another snag. Boy was I glad to be wrong.[/#0000ff]
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[flygoddess]

Absolutely! But once I get into the fish I do turn the motor off and kick.
In fact, the fish I wanted the picture of, the motor was on so I could get to you a little quicker, but most of the time it was leg power after that.
I would use it off and on. But I was stripping full arm lengths at a time.

I agree on the speed thing though. Some of the biggest fish I have caught was because the wind had me moving.
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