My new spot.
I said new places, not new rivers. That's right...Boulder Creek again. Hey, I'm trying to save on gas money okay. But the fishing has been great anyways so what the heck right. Well to begin, I got the camera working again after falling into the river a while back. So we have pictures on today's post. Great.
So as for discovering new places, that is exactly what I did today. I decided on my way to the river that I did not want to drive up and down the canyon chasing trout. So I was picking a spot and fishing there for the next 6 hours. I won't say where I was exactly but I will say this. We (locals) have all fished the put in on this spot but I am assuming that most haven't fished upstream of the put in as I did today. I never see anglers in this section when driving by and have fished with others who take out at the same spot. If you upstream, it doesn't look great. But I found out today that was not the story.
I started, as I said in the usual put in spot at 11:00. I fished the same setup as I did last time out and it was pretty good fishing. I was using the prince/poison tung combo as mentioned in the previous post. I was getting into quite a few fish and again, like the week before, it slowed down around the same time. I remembered to change it up as I did the week before and hopefully that would help.
At around 12:30 or so, having only fished less than a tenth of a mile in just an hour and a half; which was testament to the great fishing, I headed up towards a real steep section and decided to keep moving as it was pretty steep and did not possess too many pockets. As I got to the top of this section I came upon a real nice flat section where I could get some real nice drifts going. I decided to tie on the trusty old beetle as the sun was coming overhead and that was all. I had a feeling it would not need allies. It ended performing just fine by itself. I caught about another 20 or so in the next two hours and again, as I could have predicted, they slowed down around 2:30.
My mid-day break spot, and a beautiful fall day.
I decided to keep fishing after taking what is, by my usual norm, a significantly long break. While taking a break on a really nice hole I noticed trout moving around and feeding right in the bottom of the water column in the dead center of the main current. I took note and tied on a new rig. The first fly I used was the same wire prince from the morning and tied about 15" below my indicator. That fly was used to mostly cover the depth that I had already been catching trout at, and also as a weight for my other two flies.
The second fly I had tied on was an experimental fly that I had tied this last week and had a great feeling about. I spent a decent amount of time thinking exactly how I wanted this fly to look and when I finally got around to figuring it all out, it came out so perfect the first time. And I kept it at that. One prototype until it is proven. I tied it on about 18" below the prince; and to the prototype fly I tied a pheasant tail with about a 24" spacing. I knew it was a deeper set up than the water levels dictated, but with this bottom fly I wanted to let it bounce all over the place and go as deep (or shallow) as the current predicted.
All I'm gonna say about this setup is I will really try to post a pic of my new fly very soon. It was off the hook this thing. I caught probably 12 on that fly alone in the next two hours. I managed another dozen or so with the pheasant tail on the bottom and even pulled in 2 or 3 with the prince. My prototype performed just as I thought it would. Sometimes, when you're tying something new, you just get a feeling.
The new fly doing what is was built to do. A fine engineering job I do say.
All in all a great day. I was really glad that I stuck to this section. It was a great piece of river and I saw not one other angler all day. I really encourage everyone to get out fishing right now. The bite is on and those browns are aggressive as heck. They are just plain hungry!!! 
My company for the afternoon.
Hope you enjoyed the report and the pics.
Tight Lines!
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