5/28/09
Tuesday 5/19/09 set a record high here in Denver. Lots of sunshine all day. But a great day for fishing Bear Creek.
I was all tricked out with my new Smith Optics prescription sunglasses, new double zinger and a new hook threader plus a tippet post with floatant holder. After taking a half hour to get the tippet post apart, set up and reassembled I was ready to hit the stream. With all this great new gear, I just had to catch fish.
Flow was about 77 CFS with the water more murky than on 5/14/09. Hard to see the bottom. I rigged up a czech nymph outfit with a #12 Gray body – Pink Thorax tung bead weighted scud on bottom and a #14 Greg’s Emerger on the dropper. I tied the dropper with 5X coming off the 3X main leader using a blood knot with one 5X leg about 10 inches longer than the 3X leg.
This rig worked well in the first hole I fished with the czech nymph bouncing on the bottom. The nymph hooked a nice fish on the 3rd or 4th drift. But I lost it by horsing too much. Some 8 or 10 drifts went by before the Greg’s Emerger produced a small 6 inch brown. Then the nymph caught a nice fat 10 inch brownie. Several more browns came to the czech nymph or the Greg’s emerger, then action died. Moving to the next pool up stream, I hooked a scrappy 11 inch brown on the emerger. That was it for that pool except for a couple of missed strikes.
Fishing pretty much died around 12:30 as it so often does in Colorado. Lunch and a brief nap. Then back to it at old Dam hole. One of the big trees had split from one of the last snowstorms and fallen into the Creek. This changed the whole structure of the pool by directing more water against the opposite bank with sand / dirt being deposited behind the tree. I worked the pool from tail toward the fast riffles at the head. This is a big pool about 200 feet long. Caught several dink browns on the emerger and on a #20 gray RS2 I had tied to the bend of the nymph. (3 Nymph rig now)
Probably caught about 8 fish in this hole, some 8 more out of a couple of deep runs upstream including a double hook up. Six inch brown on the czech nymph and an 8 inch brown on the emerger dropper. Moving on downstream to Corwina Park East, I hooked 4 to 7 inch browns for over an hour before fishing died off. Total for the day was 27 fish. Pretty good day.
Does Czech Nymphing work (or short line weighted nymphing) ? You bet it does.
Tight Lines and Good Fishing,
Marshall, Editor
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