May 31 Report

[FlyfishingEngineer]

Myself and a friend fished the Blue Ribbon area yesterday for the first time with fair results. Hit the water around 6 am at Turners and got above Mary Decker by 6:30. We saw the most action in the first thirty minutes we were there, catching 3 very large and healthy rainbows on Dons Crawdad. Things slowed down until midday when my buddy hooked into a 18 plus inch rainbow on a black stonefly. For our first time we considered this a fair day, we were just wondering if a 4 fish day is the norm in that portion of the river or if it was a slow or excellent day by normal standards for down there. Thanks.

[Brian Sloss]

It has been fishing pretty slow lately, but sounds like the quality you hooked was pretty good. It will improve later in the summer and into the fall.

[FlyfishingEngineer]

The quality was outstanding, the only one we actually measured was the last one my buddy caught which was around 18.5 inches. I would estimate the three that I caught to be in the 16 to 19 inch range based on the size of the one we measured. The length wasn't nearly as impressive as the girth, all the fish were extremely thick with a girth more characteristic of a longer fish. We were kind of suprised we didn't hook up any goggle eye or smallmouth, is the water too cold in that stretch of the river?