report from past weekend

[slosh]

Put in at hwy 8 bridge Friday afternoon. The river was up a foot or so and murky. Caught 1 smallie on the way to the trout waters. At the confluence of the springs, hooked into a nice rainbow which ended up breaking my line. Didn't get to fish much here since it was getting late and we needed to set up camp. Camped at the confluence of Dry Fork Creek. Fished Sat morning upstream of camp. Caught 3 nice 'bows and broke my line again. Those rainbows were a blast in that fast water. I had 2 lb test on since the rivers have been gin clear (besides this trip). I wish I would have switched to 4 lb test. We set up camp between Cardiac and Suicide. Floating in, caught a brown just up from camp against those downed trees along the bank and a bow right at camp. Caught another brown at camp awhile later. Then walked upstream and had a rainbow break my dang line again so I was done for the day. Time for happy hour! Broke camp Sunday morning and caught one brown at Suicide and that was it. All in all, the fishing was pretty decent. All were caught on rapalas.

[hank franklin]

Nice report. Used to float that stretch quite a bit. The gravel bar at the Dry Fork Creek confluence is one of my favorite spots. Always catch fish in and around there. Caught a huge smallmouth one year in that long straight stretch just below where the spring enters.

We've never had much luck beyond Cardiac, either for trout or smallmouth. Section just above Scott's in particular has always kind of dragged.

Still a great float though....

[Griffster]

I was down there yesterday. Walked in at Suicide..water was up. Made it hard to move around but the fishing was pretty darn good.

Cg