Friday, February 8, 2013

Best answer to mystery

Fished Spring Creek this week and found the water to be just a bit high but still caught fish on scuds. If your not bouncing off the bottom you will not be in the zone. I was thinking about fishing Paradise and wanted to check out the outflow pipe, found an employee and we had a long discussion of where all the fish have gone from the outflow, he told me that the new scrubber (the one they wasted money on) is doing a great job and that no midge pupa or other food particles are getting dumped in to the outflow, this coupled with the fact that no fish are lost has had an effect on the population below, gone are the large school of fish that were present and gave us so much fun. We used to have a great time casting #26/28 midge pupa to these guys and spending an entire afternoon catching them but they have moved on in order to find food. This is about the same thing that has happened to the "Sipping Pool" on Fishing Creek but the water quality has not improved to the extent that Spring Creek has. I have seen great midge and BWO hatches in Fishing Creek but no fish, maybe the escape accounted for the hight population, just do not know that for a fact. The fish at Paradise were very large guys and we believe they grew that way from the constant food but Fishing Creek is still a mystery.

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