Fishing Report

[Phil Lilley]

Wanted to find some larger rainbows so I headed upstream, thinking I'd start at Lookout and fishing the bluff bank using scuds. As I pulled up to the area, I notice no one was wading in the stretch next to the island so I decided to head on up to KOA and fish up there. If there's waders in the shallow stretch, I can't run through there on plain... makes too many enemies.

I started fishing just below the KOA rock bank using a thin skin gray scud but soon switched cause rainbows were midge along the bank I was fishing. I tied on a red zebra and caught a dark male rainbow right of the bat- then nothing. Long story short- I tried deepening the zebra, put on a renegade (dry) and caught a couple small rainbows, used a black soft hackle and caught one more, stripped it all the way thru the shallow area to the bottom of the island with one more strike.

It was slow and disappointing. I thought it would be a good catching trip but it ended up being a good fishing trip.

No boats above Fall Creek, only one wader fishing when I drifted out.

[FishinBC]

Phil, we are new to the area and would like to make a run out there to fish tomorrow. Can you recommend the best place to park, walk and then wade?

[Phil Lilley]

Park at the parking lot near the hatchery and walk up or down stream.. assuming you want to fish below the dam. I've posted some maps here-

http://www.lilleyslanding.com/lt_maps/Top_End.php

This is a map of the upper end but you can scout further and see there's good wade fishing all the way down to the KOA.

Take some soft hackles, olive wooly buggers and cracklebacks... it should be breezy and they should work.

[FishinBC]

Thanks Phil we are excited about checking it out!