Quinnie 6-8-16

Took dad Fishing today.  Hit the trout brook pool at 6:00am had top water action until 7:45ish as usual once the sun hits the water the action stops.  Got tired of fishing on top to no fish so switched to a soft hackle pheasant tail and a bead head hairs ear.  Hares ear took a brookie and then it was time to head to work.

Flies tried: best guess as to the fly of interest is something brown.  Dad had a hard slap on a brown cahill and I had a hard look at an elk hair caddis in green body. The dace liked the caddis.  Lots of flies rising no idea what they were.  1 week ago a black gnat and a mosquito were the most successful.

Fri return

Well I had to take Friday off for some family commitments but those didn't begin until 10. So what was I to do. Easy talked my Dad into a trip to the Q for a fly fishing trip.  Figured I had the fish patterned after Tuesday but unfortunately NO.  The hairs ear brought nothing to the net. All that was managed was a small brown on a pheasant tail?!?! Fish haven't been hitting that all season.  Did manage a stock bow in one of the deeper sections of the river on a black cone head woolly bugger.  He pulled a steelhead trick and came shooting out of the water to the head if the pool only to come back down and head to the back of the pool where he lost me.  A nice size fish with a well executed plan on how to loose a fisherman.

Quinnie

Well the quinnie has finely settled down a bit and gotton some fish last week.  The road pools were filled with people. Not many catching fish. I went with dad and he lost the handle on my spinning reel. No fish to had but a few bites. Overall this river looks to be in good shape after running around 1000cfs. Hopefully the coming rain will move some of the remaining fish around. The river was running around 100cfs today with air temp in the 70's.