August 11, 2024

Plastic eggs did well this week. A white egg, 1 bb shot and a No. 16 or No. 18 hook worked great.

Two-pound line was very important. You can throw it a little far with 2-pound and fish seem to be much less bothered by 2 pound line. Take the small egg, throw it in the faster water at the head of the pool, let it roll out and be ready for a strike when it hit the slightly slower water.

Powerbait grubs can be fished very similar on light equipment. Sometimes, you can fish them with absolutely no weight because they are heavy enough to cast fairly well. Throw them up into the faster water, let them naturally flow out and the trout will come up on top and take them sometimes. It is not the most effective way, but sometimes it is more fun than fishing them with lots of weight on the bottom.

The yellow and the pink Powerbait grubs have been working better than the brown, unless you are up by the hatchery, then brown seems to work pretty good. Plastic worms can be fished very similar, but they are a little harder to cast so a little b shot is best with that a lot of times. The best colors in the plastic worms this week were white, orange and white, and pink and white, and the green with the black stripe did pretty good too.

If you are fishing, spinners, black, skunk, white and the olive green seem to do pretty good. As with any spinner, fish it back as slow as you can just fast enough to keep the spinner blade turning.

Micro jigs and Marabou jigs 1/16 and smaller have been doing very well in black and yellow, white, olive green and tan.

If you are fly fishing, your best nymphs right now would be scuds, pheasant tails, hares ears, copper, Johns and burlaps. Right now, I am fishing nymphs, mostly smaller than a 16.

I have been catching quite a lot on black woolly buggers in the morning, but olive green and sometimes white can be pretty good too.

Dry fly fishing is still very good, we are still catching trout on black beetles, black ants, elk hair caddis, parachute Adams, blue wing olives, hoppers and tiny tricos in the morning. The water is very low and extremely clear, so 2-pound line works very well right now if you’re fly fishing and fishing tiny dries. I do recommend 9’7X leaders if you are fishing woolly buggers, crackbacks, or things like that. I will try to fish 6X, and if the fish won’t take 6X, I’ll go back to 7X.

Good luck on the river this week!

Roaring River State Park trout-fishing tips are provided by Tim Homesley, owner of Tim’s Fly Shop, located at 23387 Hwy. 112.