On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 03:50:15 GMT, Tim Lysyk
wrote:

Yep.......the subject line says it all. Managed to get a good day of
January fishing in today. You see, cabin fever was setting in as the
weather had been brutally cold since the day after Christmas right up
until about the 16th of January (tied about 8 dozen flies during that
period). Then, the sun came out and so did the Chinook winds. Daily
temps went from -20 to +15 and higher (that's in centigrade, don't ask
me to translate). With the warm temperatures, the snow completely melted
and the ice cleared completely from the banks of the rivers. This, and a
few days of rain, resulted in pretty murky water, so fishing had been
out for the past week. However, the water had been clearing over the
past few days, so a friend and I went to try our luck. The sun was out,
the wind was quiet, and the fish were hungry. I started out fishing a
deep hole near a steep bank. Probably about 5 casts into the day, I
hooked into about a 16" or so rainbow. Beautiful male with a thick body
and dark red flash down the sides. The second fish came about 10 or 15
minutes later, and was a solid whitefish. Moved up the rive and fished
for an hour or so without a bite, then, in the space of of about an hour
or so, I was able to land three nice rainbows from a deep pool. These
also ranged in size from 16 - 18" or so. After a while, we fished our
way upstream, and finished the day with another rainbow from the tail
out of deep pool. The fish were really beautiful. Their backs were a
deep olive, and they all had red stripes along the sides, both male and
female. All were in excellent condition. The weather was excellent.

I fished the whole day with the same nymphing rig: a cork indicator
followed by about 5 - 6 feet of leader, a single split-shot for weight,
a heavy wire-bodied bead head San Juan worm (size 10), and a size 18 RS2
dropper teid through the eye of the worm with about 12" of 5X tippet.
Caught all the fish on the RS2. It amazes me that these large trout will
take the effort to eat something that represents such a small food item.
You would hardly think it was worth it to them. But, I am glad they did.

Tim Lysyk

Nice read Tim. Where on the Crow were you fishing? The "deep hole
near a steep bank" sounds familiar.

Peter

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