| Tacoa in Late January |
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| Wednesday, 06 February 2008 | |
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Tacoa River, GA Jan 26, air temp 59/water temp 41, Sunny conditions. Charles Bagley and I hit the Tacoa twice last week with good success both times. On Monday, the weather was warm and sunny which was nice for the fisherman but not good for the BWO’s! We could see trout rising as far up and down river as we could see. Much of the water was flat and skinny. I could see that most of the rises were to midges however, the trout had been seeing enough BWO’s so that they would take the #18 Duck’sYellow Post Emerger (DYPE) with a trailing a #20 Barr’s emerger fairly often. They hit the floating emerger about twice as often as the trailer.. We both hooked a few dozen between us. The next day we found cloudy, windy conditions. The trout were rising all around us and were taking midge pupa as evidenced by the rhythmic dorsal/tail rises. I found several #26 size black midges in the surface film and saw several size #28 white midge adults being sipped from the surface. I lost my only midge pupa imitation on my second fish (fishing 7X) and had to switch back to the DYPE, which was still but less effective than the day prior. Later a few stoneflies made their appearance but not in the numbers that stirred the trout. We each caught several trout for another fine day. That night I tied a dozen #26 black midge dries and a dozen #28 black midge pupa—I will be ready next week………………… Dry fly fishing in January—what a dream. I think that many of us do not fully appreciate the region where we fish. There are few places in the US where one can catch a good number of trout on the surface every month of the year! Throw away your lead! Col. Roger L. Duckworth (Ret) |
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