Missouri River, MT

below hauser

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Outing Information

Date: Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Start/End Time: 1:30 to 5:00
Best Fishing Time: 4:30 to 5:00
Rating: Great

Classification: Public
Water Temp: -
Water Clarity: Clear - 5'+ visibility
Water Level: 4180
User: Troy Blandford

Fish Caught

Brown Trout

Caught	Avg Size	Pattern	Optional Fields
1	25"	#4 Yellow Woolly Bugger
1	25"

Rainbow Trout

Caught	Avg Size	Pattern
1	16"	#16 Black RS2
1	18"	#4 Yellow Woolly Bugger
2	10"	#18 Peacock Renegade
2	12"	#18 Peacock Renegade
2	8"	#18 Yellow Renegade
1	20"	#4 Yellow Woolly Bugger
1	23"	#4 Yellow Woolly Bugger
10	13.7"

Mountain Whitefish

Caught	Avg Size	Pattern
1	15"	#14 Orange Egg
1	17"	Orange Egg
2	16"

Total: 13 fish Top Patterns: Renegade (6) Woolly Bugger (4) Egg (2)

Weather

Skies	Afternoon	Evening
Mostly Cloudy	X	X
Precipitation
None	X	X
Wind
None	X
Very Light - <5 knots		X

Air Temp High/Low: 60.0°F / -
Wind Direction: -
Weather Front: -
Barometer: -
Moon Phase: 78% Full (Waning gibbous)

Other Patterns Tried

No other pattern information for this outing.

Hatches

20 black w/white wings Midge Diptera

Insect Seining

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Fishing Partners

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Waypoints

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Tides

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Notes

Phenomenal fishing day.

Started with an egg/rs2 tandem rig and picked up a nice rainbow on the rs2 then a couple of big whitefish on the egg. Then I casted a woolly bugger quarter downstream and let it swing in the current. I picked up an 18" bow. Found a bunch of small trout rising in a back eddy taking midges. A renegade took these fish with easy..fast action. The last half hour before dark (4:30-5:00) I went back to the woolly bugger. Caught 4 fish in 30 minutes the smallest was 18" the biggest was a 25" Brown!. The brown was close to the bank and hit about 4 feet from me.

Great weather conditions (very warm for mid-November, no wind, cloudy) equals great fishing. In addition the road to hauser dam has been closed for the last mile almost all summer except to walking (and the sign yesterday said open to fishing on Weekends ONLY)....so much less pressure than normal....the worm slingers and metal chuckers haven't been pulling out all the big fish this year. I should have gone here more this year...I only went this once. (In the past I have typically only caught a couple or been skunked).