Meat chucking

we gave dry flies a break and chose streamers instead. the flows were up a bit which made wading a challenge but we were able to get into some fish, including some real nice ones but the real nice ones we could not get to hand. surprised at nicely colored up already.

Shut out

Braved a long ride with my jeep to check out some water i hadnt seen yet this year. i bypassed the stretches i usually fish over there to look at something less fished. i got rigged up with a hopper and made the long walk down to the river and continued further downstream till i couldnt. fished up a good stretch but couldnt conjure a single fish. there were also a lot of beaver action in that area. once i got back up to the jeep and drove upstream some more and fish a small piece. the water was pretty damn low up there and the results were the same, notta

An old favorite

We drove elsewhere for a change of pace to what used to be, hasnt fished overly well in the last few years, a favorite fall creek for me. i still fish it a few times a year but it doesnt seem to be what it was a few years ago. anyway, we drove up and fished the upper reaches of it and the beavers have wrecked havoc with dam after dam. even crazier that we only saw 1 fish that was at least 16". may come a time where it becomes a once every few years type of stream. bummer

Called it early

We were the 1st ones there and had walked down just a bit to start but within an hour and a half or so we got high holed. when i popped around the bend 2 dudes and a chick were standing there fishing and they asked if we were heading up which i said yes to but the dude insisted they would go up and start a little higher up, fuck tard! so we caught up to them quickly and as we took a wide detour to get considerably around them, they quickly got out and started to bolt upstream, appearing to try and stay above us, which really pissed us off and so matt laid into the dude and by the time we got back to the truck and tried to find some good water lower, there people everywhere. so we just called it a day. people have no river etiquette. what a waste of a drive but we did get into a couple fish at least.

The upper stretches

We drove upstream quite aways in search of some nice little cutthroat. the water and weather were perfect and the flows seemed just right as well. the fishing ended up being pretty slow and the wading was brutal as we were both slipping, stumbling and fumbling all over the place. in fact, for the next couple of days my quads were killing me. thoroughly got our asses physically kicked. we got into a few fish and matt caught the first brown he's ever seen in there.

Good to get out

Hooked up with matt bright and early monday morning. i had taken it off in conjunction with a weeks worth of vacation that i took. we headed in that direction and luckily arrived before any of the riff raff did. the temps were actually a bit chilly in the morning but once the sun started coming up it was all good. the 1st section of river fished very poorly but the upper sections proved to be much better with green drakes, beetles, ants and an attractor. it really turned on in the last couple hours before we called it a day. 

Kept it close

Didnt feel like a longer drive to fish so i just stayed local and threw some streamers. the water was good, the weather was good and i did get into a handful of fish, nothing big but a few decent fish