San Juan last Tuesday

Last Tuesday was a government holiday in the US (Veteran's Day). Your
faithful government servant took the opportunity to check out the low
flow situation at the San Juan, in preparation for the upcoming clave.

The flow rate was low - ~250cfs. It's expected to stay at that low
level through April.

The weather was supposed to be terrible (rain, cold, snow). It wasn't.

Everyone told us the fishing was slow and the fish were hiding. It
wasn't and they weren't.

The weather was gray most of the day. Midges were clustering like
crazy. Dry flies were working fairly well, as were SJ worms and midge
emergers (zebra midges and chocolate emergers). The water was fairly
murky, which usually makes the fish a little less picky.

Here are a few pictures:

http://bryan.lally.org/SanJuan/

I'll leave those up for a couple of days.

Still looking forward to the clave. 3 rooms at Rizuto's are taken, the
other 5 are empty!

- Bryan

"Bryan" wrote in message ...

Here are a few pictures:

http://bryan.lally.org/SanJuan/


Thanks for the report and for posting the link. Those are nice pictures and
they really make me wish I could attend the December festivities. I'll
cross my fingers that the weather gods smile upon all you Clavers!

Cheers,
Bill

Hi Brian,

Great pictures and report, Thanks.

PS: I have a hat like that and my wife calls it "birth control".

--
Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA
www.kiene.com

"Bryan" wrote in message ...
Last Tuesday was a government holiday in the US (Veteran's Day). Your
faithful government servant took the opportunity to check out the low
flow situation at the San Juan, in preparation for the upcoming clave.

The flow rate was low - ~250cfs. It's expected to stay at that low
level through April.

The weather was supposed to be terrible (rain, cold, snow). It wasn't.

Everyone told us the fishing was slow and the fish were hiding. It
wasn't and they weren't.

The weather was gray most of the day. Midges were clustering like
crazy. Dry flies were working fairly well, as were SJ worms and midge
emergers (zebra midges and chocolate emergers). The water was fairly
murky, which usually makes the fish a little less picky.

Here are a few pictures:

http://bryan.lally.org/SanJuan/

I'll leave those up for a couple of days.

Still looking forward to the clave. 3 rooms at Rizuto's are taken, the
other 5 are empty!

- Bryan

"Bryan" wrote

Here are a few pictures:

http://bryan.lally.org/SanJuan/

good lord.

yfitons
wayno

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 13:40:48 GMT, "Wayne Harrison" wrote:


"Bryan" wrote

Here are a few pictures:

http://bryan.lally.org/SanJuan/

good lord.

yfitons
wayno

No kidding.

Folks, if your only net looks like that one, and you're going to C&R on the
San Juan, do everyone a big favor and leave your net home.

Folding a 24" rainbow into the bottom of a net such as the one shown will
injure the fish, perhaps fatally. It's a ridiculous thing to use on that
river.

Smarten up out there.

/daytripper (C&R shouldn't equate to uninformed mayhem astream...)

Bryan wrote:

Last Tuesday was a government holiday in the US (Veteran's Day). Your
faithful government servant took the opportunity to check out the low
flow situation at the San Juan, in preparation for the upcoming clave.

The flow rate was low - ~250cfs. It's expected to stay at that low
level through April.


Thanks for the info Bryan.

Did you see any Olives? What dries were working for you?

See ya in a few weeks.

Willi

Nice pictures Bryan. That second fish is a pig.

bruce h

Willi wrote:

Did you see any Olives? What dries were working for you?

We were too close to the dam to see any olives. We heard they were
hatching down by Baetis Bend and below the Texas Hole. But we were way
up in the midge waters.

Griffith's gnats were good if you could pick your fly out from the
naturals. There were a lot of naturals and the light was real flat, so
picking yours out from the crowd was pretty tough. Small parachute
adams with a little of the tail cut off were working OK. Mike had some
fly he had tied that looked a lot like a Griffith's gnat with a little
white post sticking up that he could see - that was the best fly because
you had a chance of telling if the tack was your fly or a natural right
next to it.

We were also floating the flies down to the fish from above, on 6x
tippet. I tried fishing a few of the fish from below with 7x, but that
just wasn't working.

See ya in a few weeks.

Looking forward to it.