Silver Creek, ID

shark tank, island flat

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Outing Information

Date: Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Start/End Time: 6:30am to 3:30pm
Best Fishing Time: 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Rating: Fair

Classification: Public
Water Temp: -
Water Clarity: Clear - 5'+ visibility
Water Level: -
User: karl

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Fish Caught

Rainbow Trout

Caught	Avg Size	Pattern	Optional Fields
1	18"	#16 Tan Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear	Time Caught: 11:00am Fish Depth: 1' - 3' Water Depth: 1' - 3' Water Type: slough Retrieve: chuck and sit Leader/Tippet: 5x Notes: Hares Ear dropped 2-3ft off of foam parachute emerger.
1	17"	#18 Olive Blue-Winged Olive	Time Caught: 2:30 Fish Depth: 1' - 3' Water Depth: 1' - 3' Retrieve: dead drift Leader/Tippet: 5x
2	17½"

Total: 2 fish Top Patterns: Blue-Winged Olive (1) Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear (1)

Weather

Skies	Morning	Afternoon
Mostly Sunny		X
Mostly Cloudy	X	X
Precipitation
None		X
Rain - Light		X
Wind
Very Light - <5 knots		X

Air Temp High/Low: 60.0°F / -
Wind Direction: -
Weather Front: -
Barometer: -
Moon Phase: 71% Full (Waning gibbous)

Other Patterns Tried

#18 Black Zebra Midge
#18 Rust Zebra Midge
#6 Black Bunny Leech
#18 Red Brassie
#18 Brown Copper John
#18 Brown Pheasant Tail

Hatches

18 olive Blue-Winged Olive Ephemeroptera Baetis
20 black Midge Diptera

Insect Seining

No seining information for this outing.

Fishing Partners

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Waypoints

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Notes

Silver Creek on opening day. Lots of people there but it wasn't too crowded. Started off at the Shark Tank trying to get the cruisers along the edge to take ZMs and other small nymph patterns dropped from a foam parachute emerger without success. I'd occasionally get a refusal but most often the flies were ignored or avoided. After several hours of trying most all of my patterns I finally got some action on a red brassie. I lost 2 fish and had 4 missed strikes on the brassie as well as 1 lost fish on a CJ. Finally landed an 18" rainbow on a HE. That was it for the morning.

After a nap in the truck while a thunderstorm came through I decided to hit the Island Flat section where I had seen numerous fish stacked up last year. I only saw a couple fish at first but then noticed large 14/16 black nymphs which looked just like black HE's drifting in the current near the surface and soon the far side of the creek became active with aggressive risers. I only had a couple flies to match the nymphs and even then the color was wrong as mine were tan and the naturals were black. I put on a tan HE 5" below a pinch-on indicator and drifted it through the rises and it was immediately snapped off the 6x tippet. The only remaining fly I had that was somewhat similar was a tan/brown bead caddis pupa that was tied with HE dubbing. It too was snapped off the 6x tippet. I noticed some BWO adults starting to come off the water so I switched to a 16/18 BWO emerger and 5x tippet and landed a 17" rainbow that took the fly as soon as it hit the water. I then missed another strike on the emerger which unraveled and became unusable.

So the day ended up not being very productive in terms of landed fish, but there was decent action and I learned alot. Bring more nymphs of various colors for the Shark Tank, especially brassies and CJs. 14/16 dark HE and AP nymphs are an excellent imitation for the pre-hatch BWO nymphs. Had I not immediately lost my 2 BWO nymph imitations it could have been a really excellent afternoon. Use 5x tippet, at least for these fishing conditions.