Howdy folks. Been awhile since I've blogged. I'm currently coaching baseball at the high school here, so it's cut into my fishing and writing time. I'll have to work on that. It's all about priorities, eh.
For those interested in the stream conditions, the Kinni and Rush are runniing great and the dry fly action has started. Chris and I saw hendricksons the other day on the kinni and got pretty excited. This is one of our favorite hatches of the year. If you get out, you can try a standard 16 or 14 Adams, and that should work. I tie a pink sow bug soft hackle as a dropper and take just as many fish on that. Make sure to have your blue wing patterns as well. They've been coming off on the Kinni and Rush, especially on overcast or rainy days. no surprises there. I would also suggest the midge patterns for early mornings. I'm becoming fond of a cluster pattern for midge. If interested in what that means, please drop a note.
Good friends Roy and Ken were out the other day and had some success. I'll contact them and they can blog on what did and didn't work on the lower Kinni.
In other news, we recorded episode 10 last week, so if you haven't given it a listen, please do so. As always, we had fun. We teased Roy pretty good, but he's a good sport. We plan to record the next episode in the next day or two. We're always looking for suggestions, so please keep them coming. In particular, we'd like some pictures of fishing hats we can post. Or, we'd settle for good fishing hat story.
Also, if you have music or story suggestions, we'd love to hear about that as well.
Hope all is well out there and you've managed to get out on the stream. be well.
joe
2 comments:
I say the heck with with the Eddie Bauer, Fison, and umpqua hats. I prefer my well-worn perfect fitting Minnesota Twins hat.
Welcome back Joe. Yes you were hard on Roy. I don't care what anonymous says. I like fancy hats. My favorite is my Akubra.
The evening that Roy and I were on the Kinni we started out nymphing as there was no mayfly activity to speak of. (I wore my camo Montana State University hat that night) We did see plenty of #32 dandruff midges. Fish eventually started rising to something just below the surface. I added some light tippet and tied on a #20 WD40 and swung it downstream to the risers. It worked great. I think I missed just about as many as I landed.
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