Billingsley Creek, ID
Vader Grade
Outing Information
- Date
- Start/End Time
- 10:00 to 3:30
- Best Fishing Time
- 10:00 to
- Rating
- Good
- Classification
- Public
- Water Temp
- -
- Water Clarity
- Clear - 5'+ visibility
- Water Level
- -
- User
- karl
Pictures
Fish Caught
Brown Trout
| Caught | Avg Size | Pattern | Optional Fields |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20" | #16 Black AP Nymph |
Time Caught: 12:00 Fish Depth: 6' - 10' Water Depth: 6' - 10' Water Type: pipe hole Retrieve: drift Leader/Tippet: 4x Notes: Dropped 6 ft off pinch on indicator. |
| 1 | 20" |
Rainbow Trout
| Caught | Avg Size | Pattern | Optional Fields |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 12" | #18 Zebra Midge |
Fish Depth: 1' - 3' Water Depth: 1' - 3' |
| 4 | 12" | #18 Brown Copper John |
Fish Depth: 1' - 3' Water Depth: 1' - 3' |
| 2 | 12" | #18 Peacock Renegade |
Fish Depth: 1' - 3' Water Depth: 1' - 3' |
| 5 | 12" | #12 Yellow Stimulator |
Fish Depth: 1' - 3' Water Depth: 1' - 3' |
| 1 | 12" | #20 White Spinner |
Fish Depth: 1' - 3' Water Depth: 1' - 3' |
| 2 | 12" | #20 Black Spinner |
Fish Depth: 1' - 3' Water Depth: 1' - 3' |
| 1 | 12" | #18 Pale Yellow PMD Emerger | |
| 1 | 12" | #18 Pale Yellow PMD |
Fish Depth: 1' - 3' Water Depth: 1' - 3' |
| 20 | 12" |
Weather
| Skies | Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunny | X | X | |
| Precipitation | |||
| None | X | X | |
| Wind | |||
| None | X | X |
- Air Temp High/Low
- 70.0°F / -
- Wind Direction
- -
- Weather Front
- -
- Barometer
- -
- Moon Phase
- 65% Full (Waning gibbous)
Other Patterns Tried
No other pattern information for this outing.
Hatches
- 14 tan Speckle-Wing Quill Ephemeroptera Callibaetis
- 18 pale yellow Pale Morning Dun Ephemeroptera Ephemerella
- black 24 Midge Diptera
Insect Seining
No seining information for this outing.
Fishing Partners
No fishing partners were saved with this outing.
Waypoints
No waypoints were saved with this outing.
Tides
No tide information was saved with this outing.
Notes
Billingsley Creek was real nice but it is already very weedy. However in the channels that weren't choked with weeds the fish were stacked all along the creek. When I arrived at 10:00am there were quite a few PMDs coming off the water and alot of fish rising, but I must have just caught the tail end of the PMD hatch because it was over within a few minutes. In addition to PMDs I think the fish were also taking midges on the surface because the rises continued although not as frequently. I also saw a large group of callibaetis dancing over a stillwater section of the creek when I arrived.
I'd like to get there an hour earlier to catch more of the PMD hatch.
Oh yeah, as I fished the pipe hole I heard a ruckus on the far bank. I assumed it was some quarreling blackbirds or maybe gulls landing. When I looked up I was surprised to see a lone turkey standing at the edge of the creek.
Comments
Jason
The 20" brown is a nice fish!
kasta
Yeah he was pretty fat. I was impressed with the PMD hatch in the morning. I remember you commenting once about the lack of insect activity on Billingsley, but the PMD hatch Sunday morning was real solid. Also the number of midges was impressive. As I stood in the weeds and casted to the fish in the weed-free zones my legs would be covered by hundreds of midges.