South Fork Madness

[katghoti]

My family took a trip saturday up the south fork of the ogden. Being hot as the sun that day, nothing was hitting from 5 to 6. Around 6:30 it picked up with a few browns, but the tubers are bad. I had had it. One floated right through the hole I was fishing and I couldn't stand it any more so I yelled, "What the hell are you doing?" to which I got a smart a$$ reply, "hey it's not just your river." My point exactly. I don't mind sharing the river, but when they float right through your hole it gets very upsetting. Not all of them were like this. I pulled a 14" from right in front of a tuber who was excited to watch.

I did find one hole the trout seems to cooperate in, and found a killer pattern that works wonders up there. The bead head hare's ear in cream was good, but this pattern was fantastic. I need to tie some up and test before I release it.

Katghoti.
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[fish4fish]

I think that if the tubers kept floating through my fishing holes i would cast a big ole trebble out into the hole and wait, when the tuber floted by i would "set the hook" []

no offence to the fellow tubers on this board, you guys are more conciderate then the ones that he talked about.
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[d-mack]

Kat,

I'm gonna let you in on a little secret that was taught me by a wise old sage. (He used to own a killer little fly shop on washington blvd in downtown ogden. You old school flyfishers should know who I'm refering to)

I to used to get SOOO upset by the "inconsiderate" tubers that so frequently came crashing thru MY SPOT. One day while restocking my fly boxes at his shop and complaining about the "traffic" on the SF he pointed out that I was missing the boat on this one. He told me that rather than complain about something i had no control over I should step back and really LOOK at the situation. Now being younger and dumber than i am today i just sorta stared at him with a blank look. He must have thought i was the dumbest guy he'd ever tried to teach anything to. He asked me how many times a group of tubers cames busting down the river an hour. I told him i would geuss at least 7 or 8 groups plus a few singles mixed in.
He then asked me if i thought the fish were "put down" every time this happened. Realizing that the fish would ALWAYS be down A small flicker of understanding started to tle in my eye. I realized that what he was telling me is that the trout see tons of tubers all summer long and instead of being put down everytime they passed by, the trout are taking advantage of the multitude of aquatic insects being dislodged from under their rocks and in the gravel as the tubers drag their feet along the bottom. It's a feeding frenzy!

He was describing what i have come to know as a "Tuber Hatch"
I can honestly say that some of my best days on the SF/O have been in the middle of the busiest tubing sections in the hottest part of the day.

In fact, you experienced this without even realizing it.

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[size 1]You gotta think like a fish to catch a fish. Gotta love those tuber hatches.[/size]
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[Bassin_Blitz]

I worked at that fly shop (THE FLY LINE) Mims and Bruce lol.
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