Fishing Report

[Phil Lilley]

Boated to the dam about 2 pm with Dave Gianini (rainbow) and made a few drifts between storms (literally). Had the whole place to ourselves the whole time. Saw one other boat on the way up.

Same conditions- floods gates and turbines. 2 or 3 guys at outlet #2 and one guy at outlet #1. And the trout were hungry for white.

Dave had tied on 2- 1/8th oz jigs- said he'd done well using the rig the day before. And he proved it by landing 3 rainbows before I boated one. I was using a rig with a #2 split shot and a white rabbit PMS and a red san juan. Broke the sj off on the first when when releasing it and didn't tie it back on the rest of the afternoon.

We caught 2-3 trout on a slow drift and 6-9 on a good drift. Most were good drifts. Caught one brown, one rainbow pushing 17 inches (Dave) and several 16's. Most bellies were buldging. A few spit up scuds. Did matter where we drifted- middle or side, they were looking for white.

Dave said they drifted white jigs from Monkey down thru the bridges and were doing as well there as at the dam. And the trout were good sized too.

[rainbow]

Just got back on from my trip. We sure did hit them good. Did the same thing on Friday. Nice size fish too. Had one bow and brown that went at least 18. Caught a bunch on every drift from the cable down to KOA.