ChuckD
03-19-2004, 04:59 PM
Headed up last weekend with a fresh news of the dam cutting the flow from 1400 cfs down to 900. Flow wasn't the problem. It was colder 'n a witch's t*t and there just wasn't much fish movement. Though a few spin guys landed 2 steelhead and one beautiful brown(maybe 10 lbs. and bright and fat), my buddy and I only managed to hook into one steelhead(which broke him off). I actually took a little swim and then later snapped the tip off my 8wt. while de-icing my guide so all in all had a rough rookie day on the Salmon. Nice water though and the weather kept the angler #s down.
Sat. night was in the teens and there was a fair amount of ice on the river Sunday AM. We waited for it to warm up a little and got on the river around 10 AM. Air temp had warmed all the way up to 38F by then but there was still ice all over the sides of the pools in places. My buddy finally hooked into a fish and landed a nice 21" brown(not as bright as the one the day before) but the skunk was off our backs. We had to trek back to Mass so left around 3:30. My buddy's Dad stayed and fished Monday and hooked 4 and landed 2(one 4 lb. brown and one 5 lb. steelhead). I guess one of the steelhead was a big boy that just ripped him upstream into a big rapid and snapped him off. I guess that little warm spell was enough to turn the fish on a little better. We primarily fished the lower section of the river down towards the Lake. The very lowest section was closed due to ice. Hope to head back up there before the bass are here...
Sat. night was in the teens and there was a fair amount of ice on the river Sunday AM. We waited for it to warm up a little and got on the river around 10 AM. Air temp had warmed all the way up to 38F by then but there was still ice all over the sides of the pools in places. My buddy finally hooked into a fish and landed a nice 21" brown(not as bright as the one the day before) but the skunk was off our backs. We had to trek back to Mass so left around 3:30. My buddy's Dad stayed and fished Monday and hooked 4 and landed 2(one 4 lb. brown and one 5 lb. steelhead). I guess one of the steelhead was a big boy that just ripped him upstream into a big rapid and snapped him off. I guess that little warm spell was enough to turn the fish on a little better. We primarily fished the lower section of the river down towards the Lake. The very lowest section was closed due to ice. Hope to head back up there before the bass are here...