Third Official Unofficial Meeting

The next unofficial official summer meeting of the HFF is July 16th.
Come join us for burgers and appropriate adult beverages at the
Colorado Steakhouse about 6:00ish. This will be a good chance to catch
up on fishing adventures true and imagined. And it is a good time to
throw out some ideas of new executive committee members.

The summer is zipping by and I have not been fishing as much as I would
like. It is such a disappointment when life gets in the way of living.
Like many of us I seem to have been very busy with very important
stuff, but am hard pressed to list much that has actually been
accomplished. At least it has not been as hot as last summer. I am
still trying to figure out if too much heat is better than too much
rain. Perhaps what we have is really too much reality…

I know the program chairman is looking for ideas for the fall meetings.
Please don’t make him grovel, beg and plea, just give him some ideas
or you will be faced with whatever his limited imagination can devise.

Check out the web site up dates. Mike B. has been doing a great job of
expanding and improving the site.

Keep the 16th of July open for our fun filled third Tuesday of the
month summer meeting. And, stop by and see all the new stuff at
JLWaters.

TimM

Fishing the Flatrock River June 30, 2013

Flatrock Fish Report June 30, 2013

Bloomington Minnow
Bloomington Minnow
Tim's smallie from the Flatrock River June 30,2013
Tim’s smallie June 30

Paul and I fished the Flatrock on Sunday June 30th. The gauge at St. Paul was at .92 when we started and at .94 when we left. At .92/.94 there was all the water we wanted to wade. I would recommend that anything above that is unsafe and unfishable. We have fished the Flatrock at lower gauge readings and it is a pleasant and productive little river with some nice Smallies. It even fished well during the drought when the gauge read .45 in June of 2012 (see pic # 21 on the 2012 the web gallery).

 

Nice smallie from the Flat rock River June30, 2013

We each caught 4 Smallies and a number of panfish and there were some nice fish in the long distance release category. We took fish both looking up and on weighted “Bloomington Minnows.” Panfish on small poppers were easy, the Smallies were not moving very far to take a fly. A lot of the wading was mid thigh and even belly button deep in a place or two. Again, I would not recommend making the trip if the stream flow was above .94 at St. Paul.

Tim

 

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