Never Trust The Corp! (lol)

[Greg]

Fished for a few hours this afternoon into the evening despite the cold. I had been watching the corps predictions for generation and was pleased to see that they were predicting 0 generation on Sun until 8 PM. I arrived about 2 PM. It was snowing fairly good and cold (about 35) but I was dressed for it. I barely wet my line at the rocking chair when they blew the horn and started one generator. RATS!! I stayed there for about an hour. Caught 3 decent rainbows.

Then I headed up to the hatchery area. I fished from above outlet #1 down to #2 and back with one generator. Caught a few including a pretty good 18" bow. Around 4:15 they shut the generation down. From 4:30 to 5:30 it was game on. Probably caught 8 or 9 that period including a couple of more nice 18"ers. Early in the day with one generator I was using a heavily weighted scud. As it was getting dark and they shut the water off around 4:30 I switched to a mohair leech. I hadn't night fished in some time but Michael's (Kyle) excellent instructions came back to me. I was still catching at 5:30 when I broke off my fly. No light so I headed back.

Nice day despite the generation and the cold. I get kind of a kick out of fishing when it is snowing. Stayed pretty warm except my hands. Very few fisherman out - saw maybe 7 or 8 total. All of the rainbows I caught looked REALLY good. Nice color and they all fought very well.

Tight lines all.

Greg

[laker67]

Great report Greg! I'm glad to hear you got into some quality rainbows.