Out to the res

We made the drive over to the res with hopes of mousing a few cutties up. we both got into a few but i think me catching a mouser on my 1st cast was the kiss of death. the rest of the day was pretty damn uneventful, with both of us maybe getting into a couple fish with streamers.

Unexpected

Mightuve seen our 1st redd, not 100% sure it wasnt a large clump of vegetation that let go off the bottom. my guess was a redd though. usually the river is still producing some solid fish right now but aside from matt catching 1 small tiger trout (never seen one in that section) we didnt catch shit. water is pretty damn low though. been a tough fall 

A quick start

I chose to walk down stream this time cause in the past couple years ive found a really big fish in the same run 2 falls in a row. today was not the day. on my down to my starting point i stopped at a favorite run, proceeded to pull 5 fish out of it and 3 of them were 19 inches. i thought this is gonna be an epic day. that ist run was it for the day. caught one small fish in the rest of the river. great start but the beginning of an unproductive fish day

 

Had some family in town

Some of the Idaho family came down so and one of my nephews asked if id take him fishing, hes trying to learn fly fishing. Armed with streamers, he had his chances but his inexperience cost him and i just plain and simple missed/lost mine. maybe next time we wont come away empty handed.

 

Another drop in flows

The flows came back down again after the rains. the flows were down to a little over 100cfs which is pretty good in my opinion, but it was still a little more stained then id prefer. me and matt gave it a go for awhile to see how it would fish. we hardly saw anything although made got into a fish or two. its a bummer cause the previous 2 times i had fished that stretch it was money. was hoping for a repeat but that didnt work out.

Post rain

After a full day/night of heavy rains the moving stuff shot up, of course but the next day they were on the decline and at fishable levels. met matt at a spot that had fished pretty well for me the last 2 wknds so we chose to check it out again. unfortunately, even the flows were fishable the clarity i think fucked it up for us. the fish werent interested or it couldve been just that the fish were thrown off due to the sudden spike in flows, i think it was the clarity though. we fished another section as well where the flows came up but there was still a substantial amount of vegetation in the river. we got into a few fish there including i bigger fish that matt caught

 

Fish are turning

Was able to get out on my day off. the flows were perfect and the water was pretty clear, but not crystal. it was solid conditions. the fish were into it starting with my 1st run and it didnt slow down till i called it on account of lightning. made the long walk back and of course once i was back to my jeep the weather started to break. oh well it was a good morning

 

Another stillwater day

Got up way to bright and early so that me and matt could get to the res before the sun came up in hopes of a good mouse bite. it wasnt and once the sun came up i was already on streamers. matt stuck with mice a while longer but eventually switched. the fishing itself sucked really bad but with the low water and lots of vegetation on or near the surface, that did not help. was a nice sunrise though.