Fishing Report 10/29 - 10/30

[vanven]

Fished wednesday afternoon and thursday. As usual the corps was nice enough to raise the water levels shortly after I got in town and left them that way until I left.

Wednesday

Started fishing around 2 oclock in the afternoon. One generator was pumping out just enough water to turn the water between outlet 3 and the guantlet into a nice riffle. I didnt get a lot of action between outlet 2 and 3 so I moved down into the riffles. Most of the other fisherman were out facing the gauntlet area and ignoring the shallower water behind them. I managed to pick up 4 fish in about 30 minutes. Most were taken on a size 14 burnt orange scud. I moved down closer to the deep hole and picked up a couple more fish on the outlet side along the slack water. Not a super productive day but definitely enough to keep me interested. The horn sounded around 5 and again about 20 minutes later so I headed back to the hotel for a nap.

I wanted to do some night fishing but gave up after 10 when the water was still up. I even drove down to check myself despite calling the generation line first. Just wanted to make sure.

Thursday

Started fishing about 9 and headed down to outlet 3. There were a solid 4 generator running. Picked up a few fish in the flooded grass on a dark red san juan worm. The rest of the day was pretty futile. I didnt see many fish caught at all.

Thursday night I did fish a bit at outlet 1 with about 5 other guys. Didnt have much luck in the high water. I did have outlet 2 to myself for a couple of hours from 7 to 9. I caught several on a pink egg pattern. Nothing of size.

I was a bit disappointed with the high water. I didnt get to fish streamers like I really wanted to because of the water levels.

-Jerod

[DoveTail]

At least you caught some fish, better than a skunk.

I find the webpage for the water generation levels a joke. It may just be the times I am there but it is never what they are projecting (at least it was that way last year). I understand the purpose of the lake is for electrical production and the disclaimers are if a power grid goes down some place they can have instant demand changing any forecast. It would be nice (if they do not have extreme heat or cold that would require electrical production) to look at the webpage on flow times and it actually happen!