Location: Crawdad hole
Air temp: 80s
Water temp: ???
Hatches: Mr. Bigstuff
Fish landed: 2(Tim) Skunk(QD)
Present members of the Fly Anglers Guild :: Upper Midwest Chapter, for this outing were:
Quickdraw
Tim
Well Tim and I were scouting some new spots this weekend and found a gem, we had to weed through a few bad spots first though. well we started at the dam, the water looked pretty nasty and smelled pretty nasty as well. who knows it could have been a heck of a fishing spot, but looked bad and smelled bad so we mover on to greener pastures.
The next spot we went to check out was in the little town, It was a spot Xan and I had fished once before, it only held some small smallmouth and small trout last time, the water actually looked shallower this time around which is something because it was really shallow last time we went. oh well, we did not wet our lines at this spot either we decided to keep moving and search for the fabled "Crawdad hole" that we had heard so much about.we took a short drive down the road and found the spot with no troubles. wow what a great looking spot, it's a short walk from the parking spot and the hole is about the size of the "Alpha" in the canyon. Tim informs me that he had only brought a 9 and a 10 weight rod, in anticipation of muskie. I said, "hmmm well you might catch some nice smallies" when we first reached the crawdad hole we were greeted by a lil muskie about 5' off the beach, that was soo cool to see. a bit unexpected. the fish slowly made his way to the center of the pool and thrashed at something at the surface.
we fished the hole for some time with little success, tim pulled 2 decent smallies out of the pool, I saw a ton of them in there, also i had one muskie follow looked to be somewhere around 30" in length. next time i'm going back with bigger flys.
we did some exploring downstream and found some beautiful scenery
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