The rains caught up to the river

Even though all the flows around these parts were high i went to check out a particular section and to my surprise it looked money. i didnt even rig up before walking to the river cause i made my doubts that the river would look good. had Willow out with me to learn more about being a river dog and other then the 1st time she had to cross the river, she did real good. she had never seen, smelled or tasted a fish but she got in plenty of that this day. the fishing ended up being pretty bad ass and one of my best days in awhile. in my opinion the weather was a plus all day as it rained the whole time i was out which kept most of the riff raff away.

 

In between the rains

Me and matt found a stretch that neither of us had fished in maybe 2 yrs. the flows dropped into perfect shape and we did manage to get into a good number of fish. weather was perfect as was the water

A quick morning

Myself and matt drove upstream to try and find some water that wasnt just a piss trickle. we found a small section and managed a few fish out of it. it certainly didnt fish as good as it looked but thats the way it often goes

Nephew was in town

My nephew was in town for a couple of days and was anxious to fish so i took him out for a few hours in the morning. he has only tried fly fishing a couple of times and that has only been with me. we threw streamers and he ended up landing a small fish his 1st cast. small or not he had never caught a fish on a fly rod so we were both super stoked. he ended up catching 4 and missing a few others. he was so excited and i was glad that he was able to get into some fish

Back in shape again

After another couple days of heavy rain the rivers were high and chocolate, high enough to make some substantial changes in the river at spots. it looked like i was the 1st one there since the river dropped back into shape which had only been maybe a couple of days before. the water looked great although it was a little lower then id prefer but it was still money and the fish were on the move. the weather was great, the river was in good shape and i got into a lot of fish so it was a fun day.

Fishable again

Between the current high chocolate waters and the last, we caught a day where the river had become fishable. the weather was great but i dont feel the river fished as good as the river was. flows were perfect and the water had some stain but plenty fishable. it didnt fish bad so thats a plus. enjoyable day

A different system

We decided to hit something completely different, in the sense that it was a different river system that we havent fished in a couple of years. we wanted to park down lower but it was heavily posted so we drove upstream aways to the bridge and walked down to our starting point. matt started with a couple solid cutts. hes been fishing it for years and said those were the only cutts hed seen in there. other then that we both got into a fair amount of fish, nothing big but some solid fish. the weather was warm enough that no jackets were required and no guides that needed deicing. was an enjoyable day