10/23/11
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Partly cloudy, warm temps. Not cold enough to ice up guides on the rod yet.
Flows are low at 88 but the water is clear. There is still lots of algae so you are spending a lot of time cleaning up your flies.
Even though it's still early, a move to smaller tippet is key. Fluro is a must and use a 6x leader with 7x for your droppers.
Fishing today was fair to good, lots of fisherman are on the water, and being a holiday week and weekend, it was too be expected. I did not see any other fisherman catch a fish. I think most people are still in a "summer" mindset and with the warmer temps, they might not be thinking winter fishing yet.
Flies that caught fish:
Size 16 Mysis
Size 18 Rainbow Warrior
Size 20 Thread Midge Red/Black
Fish were pooled up under the bridge, a few large ones, but they were extremely spooky and with people walking over the bridge non-stop, they were lock jawed all afternoon. I ended up pulling only 2 fish out of the bridge hole, nothing of size, but it's still fun having people cheer you on when they see your rod bending.
After fishing the bridge hole, I moved upstream to the bench hole and caught more fish here. Again, nothing of size but it was nice beating a skunk with so many people not catching around me.
Ended the day with 8 fish mostly bows with an occasional cutbow. I'm looking foward to when the weather gets a bit colder and there are less people on the water. This makes it much easier to catch some of the bigger guys as they are less spooky.
Next trip I'm planning on fishing upstream closer to the dam. Lots of good riffles and some deep holes along the way that hold some big fish...
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