Basically new

Havent seen this stretch in years and definitely not since mother nature kicked its ass a few years back. i hiked down from the parking lot a couple of miles, 2 or 3ish, to a point where any trail had disappeared and i was bush wacking. the last time i had fished it, cicadas worked well for me. i cycled thru a number of different dries but the fishing was non existent for quite awhile, then finally on an unsinkabeetle i caught my 1st fish. i ended up catching 4 or 5 fish but no cutthroat this time, all browns. in the past i had caught a few real nice cutthroat. the weather was great but the fishing was slow and at some point i ran into someone who had started fishing above me. the slow pools that used to be there but closer to the dam are still there and full of real nice browns but they were super spooky and i had no answer.

2 Rivers

I wanted to throw dries but i was heading out at dark so to kill time before it was more dry fly endusive i drove to a different river system and threw streamers for about 3 hours. moved a good number of fish but didnt really see anything big and just caught average fish. after i got back to the jeep and drove over the mountain to hopefully get into some fish on salmonflys. i got into a couple but only landed 1. the weather was great and it was a fun day

Plan B

Drove over to a small stream in hopes of some top feeding fish. there were only a small handful of bugs coming off and again no heads. on top of that the flows dropped what seems like about in 1/2 compared to the flows a few days earlier, which i think made the fish to damn spooky cause i only saw 1 and it was a spooked fish. after fishing thru a couple of sections i decided to drive over the mountain and hit another small river. the flows were still great but again the fish werent very active. i did land 1 on a salmonfly dry and moved a couple of others. it was a tough day of fishing 

Looking for some early drakes

Took the day off so went for a drive to some small water in search of Drakes and heads. there were still a few brown drakes, pmd's and some blue wings coming off but no green drakes yet. still managed a few fish.

Took a few hours...

After work to see if i could get into some wipers. once again that was a big no for me. i did manage a few small smallies and i think some largemouths. they were all small so that was a bummer

Sunshine

The sun came back out for a couple of days so after work I met matt on the river in hopes of seeing or moving some fish on Salmon flies. we found a few adults coming off and flying around but it wasn't many. moved a few fish on salmon flies but they also weren't many. finally found a salmon fly coming out of its shuck so that was cool for me. 

Another dreary day

Dreary, rainy days are usually not conducive to throwing most dry flies so it was another streamer day.  me and matt threw streamer but it was a pretty slow morning. we got into a few fish but it was pretty blah