Green Below Fontenelle Saturday July 19th, 2014

Date / Time: Saturday July 19, 2014 Location: Green River Below Fontenelle. Dam to dodge float. The Characters: Kory, Jason Curry Weather: Mostly Sunny, wind picked up early around 11am Water Temp: Low 60s guess Water Level: Slightly high around 2,000 cfs Water Clarity/Quality: Crystal clear Moon Phase: Day after Last Quarter Best Flies: Large PMX, Cicada, Elk Hair Caddis, Spinners, Peacock Stone Hatches: Tricos, Caddis, PMDs, Sallies Fishing: Fished evening before above weeping rock in the flat and caddis were good. I fished the lower end flat water and had a struggle for a bit and mostly got smaller browns while Jason fished the upper riffle end and stuck a bunch of nice rainbows. There were some bigger caddis and they seemed on those, Jason’s best pattern was the #14 EZ caddis in tan, I tried various patterns and got them on a few different ones but not as consistent. Next morning got on the water early around 7am and planned to float from the dam to Slate Creek Bridge. There were some tricos around, and a few fish up but nothing consistent initially. Jason started with the big PMX and stuck one right off the ramp. We both got a few more good eats in the big flat above weeping rock. Probably could have stalked risers and got some, but wanted to wait until it really was going. Found risers below weeping on river right in the nondescript drop off and instantly broke off a pig on a spinner and put the others all down. May have had another eat, don’t remember. Fish were up on river left in the boulders below that, but we didn’t get any of those either. Ended up on car body channel since it was good in there week previous. Wind started to pick up then with some gusts. There were also some other boats around, so trying to come up with a plan to deal with that. Ended up finding a killer bow in the micro pocket on river left below the cars above where the channel meets main river, super subtle. Made one or two drifts over him with the elk hair and he inhaled it and ripped me up good down river a ways. Ended up landing it, killer 18-19” bow. Walked around and looked for risers, but people in opposite sidechannel and didn’t see much so walked back up and met Jason. Decided to check out mini channel on river right since water was high and they were in there thick week previous. Gave Jason lower spot and he said he hooked a pig. I went to upper spot, saw a few risers but put them down or something since they disappeared. Eventually decided to head down to next sidechannel and dudes were wade fishing it so instead decided to dropper fish hard on river right and ended up getting them pretty good with the copper bead peacock stone #12. Had the PMD nymph behind it but most ate the stone. Landed several good fish mostly bows, ripping hot, a few cutts. Worked down and got sporadic fish on the Cicada and Stone dropper, nothing on fire but decent action. Wind picked up pretty hard, but we stuck it out. We got to Slate Creek at about 2:30 and decided to shuttle down and float on to Dodge. Continued to fish dry dropper and got them more on the dropper for a bit with occasional dry eats. Eventually decided the dropper was hindering dry eats and we went straight dry around Seedskadee Islands. Hoping for the sporadic caddis eaters we saw week previous, but wind was kicking pretty strong. Eventually Jason got a cutty at bottom of channel and then got the ridiculous crushing, pummel eat by a killer rainbow below the confluence on river right. I missed a super sweet eat in the small channel river right below that, slow mow looked like a big brown in a classic undercut. After that it was slow for a bit and we decided to float the long channel above the takeout river left. Got 6 or 7 crushing eats in there, I broke off the first one which I think maybe pig brown or possible cutt then Jason broke off a pig brown on side of the boat. Ended up landing a couple killer rainbows though after that and ended the day on a sweet fish. Fun day, off the water around 8:30. Deer flies were gnarly in the sidechannel and down in all of dodge and mosquitos were rough especially as sun got low so it was time to head home.