Back from spending 12+ hours fishing NSR from Ft Sask to the Vinca bridge. 4 of us threw everything but the kitchen sink at them and after 48 man hours all we had to show for it was 3 Goldeye! The first one was caught on a LT #4 Red Devil, go figure....so I thought ok, should be a few more around, lets throw out a elk hair caddis.
Not a sniff...so I switched it up and went my old faithful the black gnat. Nadda, nothing, zero. So what happens next you ask? The nephew who caught the fisrt Goldeye and his zebco special with 25lb test and 40lb leader catch another Goldeye. He releases that one and on his next cast, catches another!
Thankfully on his next cast he sets the hook into a rock bass and breaks his rod. So I say to myself one more cast and then were done. I manage a nice roll cast upstream on the edge of the current and start to watch it slowly drift down in front of me. Looks good...no reason a Goldeye shouldn't gobble it up, but half way into the drift not 2 feet from my fly does a Goldeye stick its head up just enough to slurp up something, wink at me and then head back down to the bottom.
I'll be sticking to lakes with my canoe for awhile. Way more options and your odds are better.
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