FISHING REPORT 5-15-08
May 15, 2008 by mountainriverjournal
EARLY birds get wadable water on Norfork and plenty of fat fish on the White.
FISHING REPORT:
NORFORK: If you want to wade fish, Norfork is you best bet. Just get out of bed early as you can see from the Generation Chart. You have until lunchtime and its over.
As Jim and Marlene Mengle discovered the fishing is spectacular. Scud patterns including Clint’s Sunday Special, McClellan’s Hunchback Scud and Kaufmann’s Scud have been whacking fish.
Midge fishing has also been popular. Black and Copper Zebras, and the gamut of other midges have been doing well.
Fishing close to the accesses has been a little crowded but like anything the further you walk the more they thin out. But please be careful, there are no guarantees here how long the water will stay off.
WHITE RIVER: Water flows have been trending lower over the past few days if you peek at the Bull Shoals Graph, but through the middle to late after we are still fishing in 5 to 6 units.
We have had some very good reports from the Upper part of the river, and some decent reports from Rims Shoals.
Spawning suckers have shown up at Rim Shoals so its worth keeping a few egg patterns handy in this area. Sucker eggs are a great source and easy of protein for trout.
Generally the eggs are small but even size 12 eggs are working.
Eggs patterns have been popular in other areas of the river too, run as an attractor in front of a San Juan, Scud or Sowbug pattern. Every guide or fisher has their own favorite color but our straw poll through the cash register is showing up yellows,
orange and flame as the most popular. Feed them something to get their attention and sneaking along behind a more subtle, natural pattern.
San Juans have been flying out of the bins, in all hues from red, brown orange and pink. Davy’s Dynamite Worm has been lethal particularly on bright days, standard San Juans and Rainy’s Tungsten Bead SJ and Bug Skin Wigglers have also been popular
. Davy has been fishing hard his Sowbug collection with some great results. as you can see from the reports. But another of our guid mates has been fishing McLellan’s Woven V-Rib Sowbug.
