A friend and I got to Little Hole parking lot around 5:15 am. It was still dark and we were the first ones to park. We got all of our gear ready and took the upper trail that leads you on a 45 minute hike down section B to Grasshopper Island. We made it to Grasshopper Island a little after 6 am and waded across the river to access the tip. The good fishing waters is from the tip of the Island working the right side bank on down to the bottom. We fished this stretch of water for about 2.5 hours and I caught 17 fish. The fish were all Brown trout but a few and all were under 16 1/2". I was surprised that out of 17 fish not one of them was over 17".
We waded back across the river and started working our way back up river to little hole around 9 am. The Green river is funny that if you are fishing from the banks from 9 am onto 5 pm it is like someone turns the fish catching light switch off. From 9 am - 12:30 pm we continued to fish various holes back up to little hole and I had 5 additional fish on the line but didn't land a single one.
From this experience and many others like it I won't typically fish from the banks between 9 am - 5 pm. Fishing will pick back up from the banks after 5 pm - dusk.
I would really like to know why fishing from the banks dies off between 9 am and 5 pm. One theory is that when the sun comes out and the water heats up the fish move from the middle of the river and work their way to the banks. This is why wade fishing is bad between these times but if you are fishing from a boat you will continue to have success because you can cast out to either bank and work the lure back to the boat primarily catching most of the fish from the banks.
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