Rush Report

Hi Folks,

The following is an email I sent to a few fishing friends and thought I'd also post it here. This fish picture was from the Kinni the other day. I forgot my camera yesterday which is why fishing was so good.

Ken

Terry and I fished the Rush near El Paso this afternoon/evening.We fished the area where Joe once sang to me as we were waking up in our sleeping bags next to the river. A storm blew through right after we started fishing but the rain didn't last too long. I think the rain may have gotten the bigger fish active. We both caught some very nice fish.

Nymphing was good and specifically the size 20 WD40 was the ticket for me. I have a renewed faith in this fly this season. So easy to tie too. I only have one left in my fly box and managed to get it back from every rock and snag I hooked tonight. I landed two 18" browns (had another one the same size break off while using a serendipity), a couple 14" browns, and one beautiful brookie that was 12". The brookie looked like it lived in the bottom of this deep pool as the colors were very deep and dark. We named this spot Republican Pool. We thoroughly worked every part of this pool but could only hook them on the 'right' side.

Not too much hatch activity tonight. We did see lots of craneflies on the water but not too many rising fish. Other than that, a few caddis were bouncing around. Last year around this time we ran into the crane/caddis combo hatch and couldn't hook a thing despite having rising fish all around us. I suspect they were keyed on cranes and we didn't have the right fly to imitate them.

We also met Arby Linder from the Eau Galle Rush River Sportsman's Club. Nice guy. They have done so much for keeping public access on the Rush!

Tonight it wasn't about quantity but quality. Sometimes the Rush can be good to you in that way and that's why there are always lots of people fishing over there.