bayfield river

[flyfishin22]

This is my first fishing report, anyways, me and my buddy fished the bayfield river today (friday). We parked at varna and fished downstream. A ways downstream we came across a nice bend hole, my buddy drifted with roe and i nymphed the head of the pool with a stonefly and a woolly bugger. No success. I then changed to a single egg and BOOM, fish on. I landed this fish (the biggest) and took a couple more casts and i was into another fish, the same thing followed, i landed this one and the next cast i caught my third rainbow. My friend landed a nice bow on roe, a smaller one. He then changed to hardware and hooked and landed two more rainbow. He also lost two on the roe, previously. The water had been too clear earlier this week and for a couple weeks, it just shows you how important rain is to fishing. Prior to this day I had only caught one other rainbow on the maitland-bayfield watershed, except for some early creek fishing this spring. Anyways, here are the pictures to accompany the tale. hope you enjoy

 

[float^drifter]

lol that picture is to small i cant see anything.

 

[openfire]

Welcome to OFF!

Awesome job out there. Beauty chrome!

Thanks for the share!

lol that picture is to small i cant see anything.

it's a thumbnail, you have to click on it

 

[float^drifter]

ohh sweet nice fish man

 

[t0ca]

holy crap thats a beauty.

 

[flyfishin22]

haha, that's exactly what i said when i saw it! All of these fish were just gorgeous

 

[openfire]

It looks like the rain brought some fresh fish in.

 

[efka]

beautiful fish!! congrats
you guys timed it right, the water looks perfect

 

[jc53]

Nice
Some good looking chrome. The second one looks like a
tank

 

[getin]

nice ones keep it coming

 

[Coreyhkh]

Awesome heading there tomorrow any other places to park? Varna is pretty far

 

[Chrisr]

Awesome heading there tomorrow any other places to park? Varna is pretty far

If you dont have a prob fishing closer to bayfield go down behind the rainbow valley trailer park. Its not a bad spot to get into the river.

 

[Coreyhkh]

Ok I checked it out Sunday and I had zero luck I didn't even see a single fish. :cry:

 

[Grey Ghost]

You're bang on with the comment on rain. We fished the Maitland on Saturday and Sunday and the fishing was excellent. Saturday I hooked over 20 fish and landed 6 bows ranging from 2 to 8 lbs. sunday the water started to clear but I still landed another 6 bows and hooked 4 or 5 more. In one hole I watched over 30 fish landed. When I was leaving I had a look at the Bayfield at Varna and was surprised to see still 10 cars at the bridge - usually means fishing is good. Yesterdays rain means the fishing should remain good for another week.
Will try an dpost some pics later today.




Everyone tells me I shoulda been here yesterday but nobody will tell me where I should be tomorrow

 

[Chrisr]

Right on thats the best news ive heard all day... were you fishing closer to the mouth or closer to parr line(31)??

 

[Grey Ghost]

I believe the original writer for this topic was fishing at Varna which is accessed off Parr Line. I was fishing below Benmiller. So both of us were getting the fish well upstream. I had two buddies fishing the mouth of the Maitland and they caught 8 bows on Saturday, they were plunking but they said quite a few were caught on cleos and crocs.

 

[Chrisr]

Lookin for an update on bayfield/maitland if any locals can give me an idea on water quality that would be great

 

[Chrisr]

really good day in bayfield.

 

[openfire]

really good day in bayfield.

There was a glitch/oversight that caused this post (and a few others) not to show. Fixed.

Nice fish!

 

[frozenfire]

really good day in bayfield.

Nice fish.
Nice streamside rod too.