Caddis | The Barbless Hook

Well I decided to fish the gunpowder again! It was not looking to be a good day with a cold front coming through and then they released water and it went from 30 cfs to about 150 cfs. And there was rain in the forecast. It turned out to be a great day a friend and myself totaled about 18-20 fish total in about 9 hours of fishing. We started out the morning at about 9:30 and i was fishing a long riffle that was about 2 feet deep. I used all types of nymphs and streamers and could not get anything. Then i went downstream some to where the riffle opened into a pool that was pretty deep. There were several rocks in the pool that i knew there had to be trout stacked up on. I fished it with several nymphs but no takes so i tied on a green weenie and started getting hookups immediately. Got a few 8″ and a 10″After i caught a few from the pool they would not bite anymore so i moved on downstream with no luck. After lunch we went downstream some more and a fished a beautiful picture perfect pool with some streamers (slump busters, sculpins) with no luck so i tried some nymphs (caddis larva, caddis pupa, BH prince nymph, pheasant tail, etc.) with still no luck so i tried the green weenie with no luck. Figured some canoes spooked the fish in the pool. fished the riffles below it and hooked into 2 decent brown trout 8″ but both came off. Fished some more riffles that people before us had fished with no luck. Came to a log jam DSCN3170

I switched to a slump buster streamer and fished through here and had one take from a nice brown trout about 12″ was my guess but no hookup. Switched to a sculpin with still no luck so I went downstream from the logjam and found this picture perfect run DSCN3169

I fished it with some nymphs with no luck!?!?!? but tied on the greenie weenie and got some really nice fish out of it. First drift through i was watching the leader and all the sudden it stops moving so i set the hook and pull this nice fish out DSCN3172 DSCN3174

landed several other fish in here on the green weenie. DSCN3177

At about 4oclock we went to another location on the gunpowder. We got there at about 4:30 and managed a few rises but no takes to some sz. 18 green and brown elk hair caddis by 5:00 it started to rain and I switched to a sz. 18 parachute blue winged olive. got this fish out of a small run with the bwo parachute DSCN3181

It started to rain more and more and the fish started to turn off so at about 6:30 we called it quits. It was a great day and i tried out the new rod and reel which are so sweet. DSCN3171