03-19-2010, 09:00 AM
computer problems, late report ,<br />i hope it works<br />I fished the catch and release,fly fishing only trophy section of the raven fork friday afternoon.Started about 2pm and had to quit at 5pm.water conditions are nice right now.temp is still a little cold but i did see some hatch activity right before I had to quit fishing(blue quills?).Started drifting a zug bug dropper under a elk hair caddis.Had to use a small split shot to get the nymph down,and I used the elk hair caddis as a strike indicator ,didn`t really expect to get a strike on it.fished about ten min and had a taker on the nymph,hooked a nice rainbow for about 5 seconds and the hook pulled out.A few cast later I saw a fish flash at the zug bug but didn`t take it.Fished on with no sucess and changed nymphs to a pheasant tail and hook a nice rainbow on the first cast.Played him for a couple of min,got my net out , slipped the net under him and hook pulled out .missed him and away he swam.I would like to have gotten a pic ,It was a really nice trout. Had to leave soon,so i thought I would streamer fish back down to where i parked.There are some huge trout in this stream,and I might get luckyand hook one.As I tied the streamer on I was saying to myself&quot;this 6x tippet is to small for this fly&quot;.Too lazy to change tippets <br />I tied it on anyway and started fishing my way bac to the jeep.I cast out and let the current swing my streamer down and close to a log that had fallen into the creek, and a big ole rainbow darted out and snatched it off the end of my line.So I left ,mad at myself for being stupid,but laughing at myself stupid.<br />when I got back into town I saw 4 smokey mtn. elk walk out of the woods.Two bulls walked out into a parking lot in front of a building,looked around a minute <br />and ran back to the woods.I took a cell phone pic.Had to zoom a lot so quality is not good.I`ll try to post pic hope it works