This whole spring from March to now has been the worst catching I have ever had on the WW streams. I have been targeting the N.Br. and Middle Br. in the hook and release area. I have been fishing mainly during the time of 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. In years past I have been fishing the same areas with great success. In the words of the youg of today this year “sucks”! Any coments? 
JJ
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Any coments?
YEAH!!!….You just made me want to stick to the river!!!! 
I bought my trout stamp again this year…..last year I only used it once…..I was really planing on using it in the up-coming weeks, but you may have just put a Kabosh on that idea…..at least until the River fishin slows down 
Typically, the hours that you listed would be the worst time of the day to fish for trout. When the sun is high in the sky the fish are easily spooked and often don’t feed. Low light hours are best!!
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Typically, the hours that you listed would be the worst time of the day to fish for trout. When the sun is high in the sky the fish are easily spooked and often don’t feed. Low light hours are best!!
I absolutely agree, BUT
I had to kill an hour yesterday 
at lunch, of all times
I released three fish within the slot (12″-16″) and kept some eaters.
2-rainbows just under 12″
1-brown just under 12″
1-brown at 17″
They are there and they do move.
I just can not imagine what that area must look like on a weekend
cheers
Timing has a lot to do with catch rates, but you also target areas that get plenty of press (see this and other threads). I’m not critical of you naming a stream as both are pretty large and have lots of water, but it IS Whitewater….. .
If you are looking for your catch rates to go up, the Light hendrickson hatch will be shortly arriving in the WW. I ran into it in Houston County yesterday http://ontheflyguiding.com/client_photo_gallery_2006.htm – pan all the way to the bottom for yesterday’s pics. that typically is a noon (when it’s warm) to sunset hatch with hatching and spinner fall. You may have to adjust your hours a bit.
Plus, what are you using for flies?? We caught fish on about 16 different dries, nymphs, and emergers yesterday depending upon time of day, what we were seeing, plus pumping a few fish to see what they were doing.
D.A.
I’ve fished the NB just a few times this year so far. The amount of fish in the section I usually fish seems to be way down from years past. I haven’t gone back there now since April. I haven’t fished the upper middle branch so can’t comment on that. I have had plenty of good luck on the other areas of Whitewater that I usually fish however. The NB had several runoff events in spring of 2004 and 2005 that I think adversly affected the fishery. I was there to witness a couple of them. While I didn’t see any dead fish it did not look good. The good news is I have never seen as many small fish or fry (1-2 inch) as I have this year in all the streams.
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