11/2/08 Crane Report

[trout_bum]

Spent the whole day on Crane today. The sun was bright and the water was low and gin clear which made the fishing all the more challenging. I threw mainly conehead buggers and mohair leeches in the morning and landed 4 trout. Once the sun warmed things up a bit I switched to hoppers, beetles and ants. I had some very explosive takes on the hopper patterns. Things slowed down quite a bit as the afternoon progressed, but I did manage to land several small 'bows drifting bead head hare's ears and zebra midges. There was an incredible Lt. Cahill hatch right around dusk that brought a lot of the fish up into the riffles to feed. I tied on the appropriate fly and had a blast for about 45 minutes getting hook ups on almost every other cast.

[Phil Lilley]

Sounds like Crane has recovered well from it's drought/flood events. That's great!

[zsmith62]

Olive wooly buggers did the trick on friday afternoon, along the lower wire road access.

[trout_bum]

Sounds like Crane has recovered well from it's drought/flood events. That's great!

I hope the trend continues and the fishery continues to get better. It's amazing how resilient these Crane creek fish are given the extreme drought and flooding we've had in recent years. Hopefully they'll have a successful spawn this winter.