We were at the Lincoln launch at 8:45, and had lines in the water by 9:00. I followed advice from Hewesfisher, and had purchased several flies. Tied on a frisky Jenny perch pattern (couldn't find a Lenny Special), and within five minutes, bang! Snapped off on a weird rock at five colors out. Retied on a fly in a pattern just like it from White Elephant that only cost $2.59 rather than $6. Ran out five colors and had a nice native in minutes. One other guy with us had a dark red wedding ring behind a red flasher set on four colors all day. He didn't change one time and had his limit by noon.

We were doing between 2.2 to 2.5 mph. We varied between his four colors with flashers, and my setup with a fly and six colors. I also used my walleye parts to make a red crawler harness that treated me well at the same speeds. I did try one of the sidewinder planer boards from Seth at AX Tackle. It worked, but at our line lengths didn't make a huge difference. Water was between 56-58 degrees. Weather was rainy and overcast in the morning and choppy water. The water flattened out in the afternoon, but we still found our friend his last few fish. Our mono and braided line lengths went from 190' all the way to 333' I caught two out there and they both ran straight at the boat. The wouldn't fight until they were within 20', so I had to reel as fast as I could possibly go to keep pressure on them. If you didn't they would shake off. Smart fish. Had several nice big jumps. Red was our best color of the day, but orange was good as well and the perch pattern flies worked well too.

I was running mono out 195-200' behind the boat with a red wedding ring and landed a 2.2 lb plant, and then for fun tried a different rod with braid out at 50' behing my sidewinder and 200' out. Caught two on that with a frisk Jenny or the copy version from white elephant. The guy driving the boat, notated what he did with his setup, Frisky Jenny, Red, Orange, or green wedding ring, or rippin minnows, just could not feet a fish after he landed his first. We loaned him our setups and he'd get a fish, go back to his, nothing. We had several 2 lb plus fish, and the rest were really close to 1 lb 15 oz. the third guy on the boat had a nice one on that got off, and the was his last time with that hook. He had the same issues others have stated where the fish would just seem to let go.

We did see te other two boats at Sterling point with us, and wave hello. It was a great day on the water.

hewesfisher

11/4/2012 1:23:00 PM

Sounds like you had a great day at Roosevelt. Sure were a lot of boats at the launch when we arrived, more than I anticipated. The Frisky Jenny perch pattern is called the "Lennie Special", you'll see it on the packaging. It is my "go to" fly at Roosevelt, and for us, turned out to be the most favored yesterday. I have noted the same as you, the trout are swimming toward the boat, but as soon as they see the boat, they have a big change in attitude! I have also noticed the trout are jumping more this year than in years past, and I don't have an explanation as to why. I'm happy I could help you with setups for success and I look forward to more reports in the future. :-)

charlie h.

11/5/2012 6:37:00 AM

Thanks for the report, nice job guys !


Charlie

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