Fishing Report: Memphis SRA
Monday, 07 May 2007, 8:11 p.m. CDT
I got tired last week bothering the fish at Halleck Park in Papillion so I tripped to Memphis, just north of Ashland. It was pretty windy in Omaha but there was some shelter from the campground hill. I had such good luck fishing the first piling by the swing set, I never got to the other side of the lake to test the 'woody' water.
Most were palm sized and were taking a small black bead-eyed wooly bugger. I tried the Grubby Gert from Boyd Pfeiffer's Warmwater Flies and continued to fish. I couldn't see if the gills were bedding but most takes were about 15 feet from shore. I moved onto the piling but the lake side was slower. I tried the Mihulka Spittin' Bug I tied for the vise/lamp that was on the registration table at Spring Fling this year. After a couple of attempts, it dawned on me the gills couldn't get past the double weed guard. I couldn't leave without one last cast using the deer hair beetle I'm found of. I'm not even sure it got wet before I was pulling another gill. There were several 7 inch'ish bass through out the night.
Time to go that night but what a great few hours. The park was pretty quiet on that Tuesday night. Several people driving through, got to wave at the sheriff once, but the few other fisher-people were on the piling by the park entrance. I suppose they didn't hear my "thank you" after each fish. I left all the fish and their cousins for the next person.
Tight lines,
Jeff
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