Big Lost River

[JohnScott]

AKA "Nowhere"

The forecast high today was 41. Don't believe it hardly got above freezing all day. Started fishing about noon and finished at 4:00 p.m. - had ice in the guides for all but a few minutes later in the day.

Fishing was a bit on the slow side, and on and off. Had a midge hatch for about an hour, with a good number of fish up. Caught about a dozen bows on a griffith gnat during the hatch. Before that, picked up one on a t.c.t.k. and afterwards one on a midge dry and seven or eight on a soft hackle pheasant tail fished wet.

Most of the fish were around 12", with one going just over 14". The 14" fish took a size 20 parachute midge pattern just below where I am fishing. A really fiesty fish, as were several of the smaller ones.



Buzz fished some different dries and a couple nymphs, a chartruse rubber leg copper john and a bead body golden stone. He caught most of his ten or twelve on the small dries. His biggest, caught on the copper john, went about 15".



There were three trucks in the area when we got to our access point. Two groups must have gone downstream. We went upstream and got ahead of the other group, with their blessing. After that, we had the water to ourselves.

John

P.S. Those mountains in the background are nauga country.