Hammered Deer Creek Freddies last week

[MasterDaad]

I spent the mornings of Friday and Saturday up at Deer Creek.

Friday was a test run for my father and me as I was hosting my daughter, future son-in-law and a customer/friend Saturday and we wanted to make sure the boat was working and DC was going to be the place to go.

The two of us caught 51 between 6:30 and 11:30.

Deer Creek was the place to go for some quick action....

Saturday morning was not quite as fast but very close. I kept my guests fishing and the three of them caught 37 between 6AM and 10:30AM.

Dragging flies was the best option, but downrigged dodgers with a wedding ring worked well also.

It was an awesome couple of days of family fishing fun.

The water was still very cool 51 degrees. I was hoping to make my tube trip this week targeting bass, but the water temp isn't there yet.

Next week might be a Yuba trip just to give the finless freddies a break.
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[TroutMan93]

Sounds like a lot of fun! What flies were you using? How deep were you trolling them?
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[MasterDaad]

Friday olive mohairs were the hottest. Saturday it was black crystal buggers.

We generally run them on full sinking line let out all the way behind the boat (as I recall, they usually hover at 5-7').

The downriggers were best at 13'.
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[flygoddess]

Are you using fly line or trolling line? And next how do you keep it at that depth with all the line out?
A midnight fire on an Intermediate line for me but I go for carp[] Rainbow were on the midnight fire and Type III line.
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[MasterDaad]

Full sink Fly line on the fly poles. It stays at depth with the drag (we're trolling the flies above the downriggers... it makes for a great combination). We vary speed between 1.3 and 1.8mph.

It helps A LOT adding jigging to the flies (not just sitting them in a pole holder and waiting).

And yes we were targeting the trout with these techniques.

On my tube I use sinking tip line and drag it slower... but that's another story.

Ice is off at Scofield so I've found my next destination!
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[mojorizing]

[quote MasterDaad]Full sink Fly line on the fly poles. It stays at depth with the drag (we're trolling the flies above the downriggers... it makes for a great combination). We vary speed between 1.3 and 1.8mph.

It helps A LOT adding jigging to the flies (not just sitting them in a pole holder and waiting).

And yes we were targeting the trout with these techniques.

On my tube I use sinking tip line and drag it slower... but that's another story.

Ice is off at Scofield so I've found my next destination![/quote]
You say a full sink line but that could be 6 or 7 different lines. What type, II, III, IV, V, VI, OR VII.
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