TroutNoDoubt
01-27-2012, 11:07 AM
Drifted with the T with Jeff Parker two days. We caught 18 fish between my buddy and me: 15 adults, 2 halfies, one brown. Only one adult was wild. Most were 20-25 inches; we caught one 27 and one 28 inches as well.
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The river got semi-blown out from rain/snow melt Tuesday night, so we drifted Lewiston bridge to Rush creek twice on Wednesday. Saw a lot of spawning fish and about 1/2 of what we caught were down-runners/post spawners.
Thursday we fished Bucktail to Steel bridge. It was busy since much of the rest of the river downstream was blown. No rain on Wed. night, so the water started out pretty clear, but the weather got warm causing more snow melt and the river got muddier as the day went on. We still caught fish all day, except mid-afternoon was slow. Most of the fish that day had not yet spawned. Nice BWO hatch around 1:00 on warm sunny stretches.
All fish except three were caught on pink bead eggs. Two other were caught on red copper johns and one on Parker's pink worm-like fly. So all pink/red/orange flies. Fished some stones and other nymphs but no takers.
Snow should melt off over the weekend and the should be great early next week if you can get away...
Tight lines,
Bob
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The river got semi-blown out from rain/snow melt Tuesday night, so we drifted Lewiston bridge to Rush creek twice on Wednesday. Saw a lot of spawning fish and about 1/2 of what we caught were down-runners/post spawners.
Thursday we fished Bucktail to Steel bridge. It was busy since much of the rest of the river downstream was blown. No rain on Wed. night, so the water started out pretty clear, but the weather got warm causing more snow melt and the river got muddier as the day went on. We still caught fish all day, except mid-afternoon was slow. Most of the fish that day had not yet spawned. Nice BWO hatch around 1:00 on warm sunny stretches.
All fish except three were caught on pink bead eggs. Two other were caught on red copper johns and one on Parker's pink worm-like fly. So all pink/red/orange flies. Fished some stones and other nymphs but no takers.
Snow should melt off over the weekend and the should be great early next week if you can get away...
Tight lines,
Bob