Brown Town

[AaronJasper]

I will never forget the advice that a friend of mine gave me on fishing high/dirty water conditions. He said to fish the water that it less than 2 feet deep as it is the only water that the sun is able to penetrate into and allow the fish to see your flies. That advice was dead on today. What was surprising is that the fish wanted size 16 and 18 flies, rather than the usual "junk" that they eat when the water looks as it does today.
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The highlight of the day came as I was about to pass up a piece of soft water along the bank. Just before I walked up on it, I said. "what the heck." I pitched my nymphs upstream, and bam. It was on. I brought the fish to the net and it was 20.5 inches. The worst part is that I almost passed it up.


Six inches of water and it's still muddy!




It was a great outing. The fishing got better as the time passed. I noticed the clarity greatly improved over the four hours that I fished.

[Magnet]

Nice!!

[Clema74]

great fish!!!!!


;D

[AaronJasper]

I put this under nymphing techniques to point out the depth of water that you can find "catchable" fish in. Simon pointed this out to me a while back. He noted that fish will hold in deep water during high water conditions, even with the water muddy. However, the liklihood that they will see your flies is very low. When you concentrate in zones that are shallower and enable the light to penetrate to the bottom the fish will see you flies and hopefully take them.

[frankm205]

Nice fish and good tips. What river are you fishing?

[SherpaB]

Good tip Aaron...all the water out here is pretty much like that right now...

[catskilljohn]

damn...20" thats a big one. You make it look easy man! CJ

[AaronJasper]

CJ,

I almost didn't catch that fish. That fish was laying in "R" water if the scale was A to Z. I learned a lot about fish behavior in the four hours that I fished. That fish was about 50 feet from the prime holding lie in that stream.

Sherpa,

I'll be out there in about 21 days. Are you ready??

[SherpaB]

I believe so...just waiting for the water to settle down.

[Soro]

Aaron - Do you find that to be true on tailwater fisheries when they are messing with water flow? Great tip.