Drove out to the berry for maybe the last time before ice off a few months down the road. it wasnt a great day but it was good enough to keep us there for a few hours. we got into a few fish, including a small few on mice. the others were on streamers. the weather was phenomenal for a early mid December day.
...but the fish will take a bit to get back into the fishable swing of things. some fish can still be caught but usually there is a recovery period after the spawn before fishing gets better. me and matt went out for a couple freezing hours the other day and we did get into a few fish and matt did land one good one that surprisingly wasnt beat up and still very clean. it was 8 degrees when we got to the river and 10 degrees when we were done
Break time for pursuing browns locally as the spawn is about to really get going. the weather was great and i got into a few fish. was a good morning
The flows have come back up a bit again, so the water is better but still the fishing is really slow. we still got into a few fish. the weather was more pleasant today compared to last.
Met up with matt bright and early to check out a different stretch of water. the water was still a little low but this stretch seems to have more fishable water during low times. we fished about 3/4 the way upstream towards are out point before we ran into someone fishing above us. the fishing had been slow so we took no issue with calling it a day and walking the trail the rest of the way out. matt did land a really nice fish but overall the fishing was really slow
irrigation is supposed to be cut off next week on our local stuff, but it seems here lately, that until then they are gonna jack with the flows a bit. the water dropped to less then my comfortable CFS, meaning for me it was lower then i prefer to fish it. i did fish for a couple hours in the morning just to see. as i expected, not much going on. i did manage 1 decent female that seemed full of eggs
they mustve released a bit of the irrigation water cause the flows came up about 50cfs and with that brought some color to the river. fishable color but a bit more then my liking. i did manage manage to get into a few fish and missed one really big fish but landed a couple decent ones.
With great anticipation based on what we'd seen this summer, we expected to go out and throw streamers at big colored up browns but we ended up highly disappointed. the fish werent there, the size wasnt there, therefore the color wasnt there either. we actually did move some colored up fish but it was few and far between and nothing really big. i did muster a nice 21" brown right of the bat and i did finally start getting into more fish when i switched to a pink hopper but those fish ranged from 3-12" so definately not what i was looking for. the weather was great but not sure what to say about that outing besides that it was good to be out.
Me and matt drove out to a place that i have fished for years on and off but the last 1/2 dozen times out or so it has not been up to par. the weather was great and we didnt see another soul around but the section we fished, my favorite section, fished like shit. we got a few on streamers and a few on hoppers but it was very disappointing in my eyes. i may take some time off of it for awhile.
Me and Matt took a drive to give a section of water one last run for the summer. storms have become pretty frequent the last couple of weeks and when we got to the water it was pretty dam brown. we tossed around some ideas for a plan B and decided just to drive upstream and hope for the best. we did finally get above the really dirty shit and found some water that was at least fishable, still a bit dirty but we decided to give it a go. as the morning went on it seemed to clear a little but in the end we were kicked off by lightning and some more rain. the fishing was slow but we still got into some fish including a few good fish.
