Missouri River, MT

Bullpen Access

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Outing Information

Date: Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Start/End Time: 5:30 to 9:00
Best Fishing Time: 5:30 to 6:00
Rating: Fair

Classification: Public
Water Temp: -
Water Clarity: -
Water Level: 5200 at dam
User: Troy Blandford

Fish Caught

Rainbow Trout

Caught	Avg Size	Pattern	Optional Fields
1	16"	#16 Olive Blue-Winged Olive
1	16"

Total: 1 fish Top Patterns: Blue-Winged Olive (1)

Weather

Skies	Morning	Afternoon	Evening
Cloudy			X
Precipitation
Rain - Light			X
Wind
Very Light - <5 knots			X

Air Temp High/Low: - / -
Wind Direction: -
Weather Front: -
Barometer: falling
Moon Phase: 92% Full (Waning gibbous)

Other Patterns Tried

#14 Pink Scud
#16 Black Baetis Nymph
#14 Lightening Bug

Hatches

No hatch information for this outing.

Insect Seining

16 olive Blue-Winged Olive Ephemeroptera Baetis
14 brown March Brown Ephemeroptera Rhithrogena morrisoni

Fishing Partners

No fishing partners were saved with this outing.

Waypoints

No waypoints were saved with this outing.

Notes

Baetis come out on the crappy weather days. And when I first got on the water there were bugs and pods of fishing rising. Caught my first and only fish on the 3rd cast---fish tore through the hole and spooked all the other risers. I walked upstream and found about 4 fish rising consistently but I made a bad approach and they stopped. Then the weather turned nice (sun poked through) and everything stopped. So I started nymphing a lightening bug and a baetis nymph and got zero hits. Fish started coming up again near dark but they were all holding in shallow, very calm water (stillwater) and feeding like lake fish (swim around and randomly pick off flies)....I couldn't get a fly in front of them. Got frustrated and decided I would just observe, so I got to a high vantage point and saw a really nice brownie and hog rainbow cruising 2 ft off the bank in 3 ft of water picking off BWOs.