Holy Water

[Jeremy]

Fished the Holy Water for the first time all this weekend, i couldnt break the jinx on my new rod but my friend hooked a 22+ incher on saturday and a 18+ incher on sunday, using bead heads. The 22 was almost as fat as he was long. They were taking dry flies around 2:00 up by the dam and only for about a half hour after that everything they took was deep. Anybody else ever fish up there and do any good, need some tips want to hook some of them big fish. Thanks

[CZ]

I've had some good success there with scuds. Both gray and olive, in smaller sizes like 14's and 16's.

Also, small beadhead flashback pheasant tails work there most of the year.

[Trout,myster]

Jeremy- go find some Muddler Minnows. Pat's flys should have them. Used to use them on the Klamath for 'bows with a split shot or two on spinning gear. Deadly fly!

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Troutmyster

[local_hooker]

I have only lived here 2 1/2 yr. and have never heard of "holy water". Would it be un ethical to ask what, where, and when???

[Bait O' Eggs]

Catholic Church on Sunday

Jesus was a fisheman, with inside knowledge of techniques etc.

[PeterMac]

Local - No not at all, ask away! I was wondering the same thing!! Well??????? http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Jeremy]

The holy water is a stretch of fly fishing only catch and release area on the rogue right below the dam about a half hour from downtown medford

[PeterMac]

Thanks Jeremy http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif, so would those fish be "half pounders"?

[local_hooker]

Bait O' eggs, I am not a fisher of men! But if you are that's ok. I judge no man, or woman, or 50/50, or he/she, or what ever.

[CZ]

PeterMac, the Holy Water has trout only as it lies above the Cole River Hatchery which prevents steelhead and salmon passage above it. Because the Holy Water lies at the base of a dam, the trout there can grow really big in a few years time. The Holy Water isn't that big of a section - maybe a mile of water or so. Immediately downriver from the hatchery begins the section they call the Upper Rogue.

They do get some "half-pounders into the Upper Rogue at times, but the majority of them are caught in the Lower and Middle sections.

If you haven't fished the Rogue, it is a real treat. In addition to trout they have great runs of summer and winter steelhead, coho, fall chinook and spring chinook. Year-round fisheries for steelhead and salmon!!!

[otter]

BOE,
I should probably stay out of this, but what the hey. Read Matthew 4:19.
KRM

[PeterMac]

Uh, BOE - You had better use a life line on that one (the Mathew 4:19 suggestion)- how about your "phone a friend" http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif !

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[Bait O' Eggs]

Ya ya petermac, So I had to call the wife on that one, she gave me the scoop on 4:19. But that aint what hooker was refering to. Mathew didnt say squat about he/shes and 50/50's.

But the rest of it was pretty close in the fishers of men thingy.

I still think he had an unfair advantage when it came to fishing. Nothing like knowing where the fish were, what they wanted in way of presentation, color and everything else.

[PeterMac]

I think he used a net too. http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Bait O' Eggs]

Local_hooker - how did you ever come up with that statement from my post?

There are not many things that get me fired up to the point of rumbling, but you just might have struck that nerve. You can be assured I dont fish for men and anybody that thinks so can meet me on the playground at recess for a can of whup a$$. http://www.ifish.net/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif I am not politically correct nor do I want to be.

[local_hooker]

AND HE TAKES THE BAIT! must have been the scent.