Name: Brad Helms
Date Submitted: 10/26/2009
Dates Fished: Oct. 1, 2009
Comments on C-68 Lwr Michigan River
Weather was cold and snowy w/ occasional wind gusts. Fishing was surprisingly good with lots of activity in the deeper pools. We landed over 20 trout between 10 - 19 inches... both browns and rainbows. The rainbows in this stream put on an excellent fight.
Name: Brad Helms
Date Submitted: 10/26/2009
Dates Fished: Oct. 2, 2009
Comments on C-51 Michigan River
Weather was cold and windy with bright, sunny skies... water flow very low. Conditions made the fishing difficult and the fish spooky. We only landed a couple of small browns using BH nymphs in the deeper runs. We saw some huge fish well over 20"... unfortunately, they saw us first.
Name: Kevin
Date Submitted: 10/26/2009
Dates Fished: 10/25/09
Comments on C-48 North Platte, North Fork
Weather was cold and windy. Partly cloudy. Was on the water from 11-4. Nymphed deeper holes of north fork w/ egg and FB Barrs emerger. Caught some nice rainbows up to 20". Had a few strikes on a trick or treat streamer. Came up on a LARGE female moose wading across the river. She was probably <50 yards from me and took a good look at me before i high-tailed it back down stream. Good rush but it kind of took my full concentration away from fishing. All in all a good day with a handful of fish in the net. No browns though?!
Name: Mike Murphy
Date Submitted: 10/24/2009
Dates Fished: 10/24/09
Comments on A-7 Tarryall Creek
I fished for about 3.5 hours between noon and 3:30. The wind was blowing extremely hard (gusts that had to be 25 to 30 MPH quite often) and the weather was mixed with clouds and sun and the temp. was around 44 degrees. I caught a number of fish on a black wooly bugger and also picked up a few on a pheasant tail. There were still a number of fish that were spawning. There were a few that did not survive post-spawn. It is a brutal thing for sure. Many of the fish on the redds had some visible signs of battle scars. The water was pretty low but the fish were willing whenever your fly made it into the sweet spot of the hole. This is undoubtedly one of the club's best properties in my opinion.
Name: Ken Blackburn
Date Submitted: 10/19/2009
Dates Fished: October 17, 2009
Comments on A-3 Arkansas River
The A-3 property has some great water. I good mix of pocket water and deep holes. The water was very clear and a flow of around 225 CFS. A beautiful sunny day with temps in the low 60’s. My friend and I heard numerous gunshots from the hunters in the area. We started on the lower end of the property at 10:00 AM. We both fished with dry -dropper-dropper rigs. I fished on the east side of the river and Gordon fished the west side of the river. I quickly landed 2 nice Rainbows on a #20 BH Pheasant tail. I did not spend much time with the larger holes as they would need to be nymphed with added weights to get down to the fish. I only fished the pocket water and the riffles where the shallow water dropped off into deeper water. I pumped the stomach of a Brown and it’s stomach was filled with midges. I took off the Pheasant Tail and tied on a #20 Black BH Midge. That was the ticket as immediately fish were taking the fly. By lunch I had landed 10 Browns and Rainbows and missed several others. My friend did not have as good of success as he only landed one fish. During lunch he tied on the same rig I was using. After lunch we fished above the walking bridge were we both caught numerous fish on the Midge pattern. We fished until around 2:45 and we each caught several fish. No fish were caught on the dry's. I noticed several Browns on their redds on the East side of the river. Always fun to see the fish paired up in the shallow water. I was informed by a fisherman that now both sides of the river above the railroad bridge are private property and no longer part of RMAC property on A-3. Very nice property and I will definitely go back.