Hooch improving

[ALG]

Is it me or are there more and more positive reports coming from the hooch. Are they doing something different as far as stocking?
ALG

[RScott]

ALG,

I think that the 'Hooch is maintaining it's quality at best. The fishing has improved because the trout aren't as pressured, and they seem to me to be more active and robust in the winter. One additional possibility is that we, as a whole are getting alot better at catching them...maybe not. I don't see as many stringers being kept in the winter either.....

Rscott

[jeffg]

ALG,
Hey where is my JD you promised...hehe.
Sunday the hootch fished horribly for my **** self. Not a nibble in 3 hrs at IF. So many people were out that there was more of a fisherman hatch than BWO...btw didnt even see a bwo while I was there, and **** sunday was perfect weather for them.

But I did see 2 spin fisherman with 4 fish each. They said they were there for6 hrs, and only 6-7 hits.
Guess slow day for all.
Also, the river was clearer on Sat than it was on Sun. Sun had the wierd green lake turning over kinda sheen to it. Sat was really clear though. Strange times are a happenin I reckon.
Smokies in 3 wks...oooh yeah.

[woollybugg]

The water looked a little clearer to me on Sunday. I was at MF and caught three on midges dropped behind a black woolly bugger. The fishing was slow, but the fish I caught were all very healthy and two were wild fish with no fins removed. Both the browns and the rainbow were beautifully colored and fought with vigor! I like the less crowded winter fishing and the solitude that a day in the water can provide.

[RScott]

JeffG,

I was one of the fools in the rain Sunday at IF. I got one bite on a pheasant tail nymph that I drug behind a CH wooly booger. I did avoid the skunk by trailing a black midge behind a BH pheasant tail.

I literally made 100 casts with the nymph through the large run in the middle of the river and got zip. I left to fish toward the islands and watched a father son team move in and catch three...in just a few minutes. He was trailing a BH wet wing pheasant tail behind a large prince nymph. Learn something every day.....

see you one day...RScott