A Tennessee Swede's ramblings on fly fishing, hard rock, books, movies and anything that comes across my mind.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Finally got my skunk off on Clinch this evening
Decided to hop over to Clinch since it's only 40 minutes from work. I had my truck loaded up and went as soon as my shift ended. Got to the river at 5:10 pm and there were about half a dozen people in the vicinity of Massengill bridge. I rigged up and got a hit on the third cast on a 22 black Zebra midge with a gold bh. Lost the fish and then nothing for about an hour and a half. A heavy black fly emergence were going on and I had no good black emerger. I found a Stewart's Black Spider but it was way too big a size 14. I needed 20 and smaller. I put it on anyway and kept my Zebra midge on. Then I finally got a fresh stocker bow on the spider. I managed to catch another one on the Zebra midge right before dark. Two hours is not enough to fine tune anything but it sure was nice to get out.