Sunday, January 17, 2010

Jones Hole




Saturday I ventured out to Jones Hole for my first fishing trip of the new year. I hiked down to the bridge, which is about 2 miles, and fished my way back up stream. (Above is 2 weeks after this post. I went back and caught more rainbows purely on wine colored san juan worms...and I tried just about every color.)
I was told that San Juan worms work well along with some type of midge dropper like a Zebra midge. I worked my way up the stream about 150 ft with no luck. In a stream like this, if you aren't catching fish then your usually not using the right stuff. I switched flies a few times with no luck and kept pressing on until I came to the first nice hole. I could see some nice fish down deep, so I threw on a black wooley bugger. Fish would follow it and occasionally nip at it, but there were no solid strikes. Next I tied on the streamer thats on my green river post, and as soon as it dropped down in the water, I had a fish on. After landing my first fish I casted back out into the deep hole and saw something big flash from the deep, and then my line took off. I fought this fish for a little bit and got him close enough to see that he was BIG, but as soon as he saw me he turned his head snapping my line, and taking with him my only streamer that I had on me! I cursed a bit and checked all of my fly boxes twice to see if I had any others on me, but I did not. After that I went back to San Juan worms, this time putting on a different colored one with some good success.


What worked: Matuka streamer, san juan worms in wine and purple colors, and I did catch a few on a black wooley bugger.





Overall I had a good time and caught a lot of nice rainbows. This is a fun small stream that always produces some big fish.