Trip Report

[Phil Lilley]

Had a trip this morning. Got out at 7:30 am. Had a son and dad from Louisiana and yes they were cajun! Fun morning for sure.

Got to Andy's House and started in. Micro jigs under a float, just like the 2 previous mornings. But this time they didn't take. I thought- good slow movement of the water downstream... lots of rainbows swimming around. Ten-fifteen minutes past and nothing so I handed them my other rigs- 3/32nd oz sculpin jigs. The water was moving faster for sure and I thought- they aren't supposed to run water this morning! Wrong. They lied. One unit came on and the moss started flowing. Judd caught a couple of rainbows before it got too bad.

Boated to Big Hole. Tried drifting a San Juan, scud, threw jigs some more- caught a couple but not up to my expectations. So down we went to the resort and picked up a couple boxes of night crawlers.

Boated back up, not quite all the way to Fall Creek. Tied on a #6 hook and a #7 split and drifted down the middle. At first it was ok, picking up one here and there. But the last hour it got good and they finished their limit of nice rainbows plus releasing a bunch more.

Good morning. Paul and Judd went home with a nice mess of trout. As I cleaned some of the rainbows, I saw lots and lots of scuds in several of them- about #14's. And these were rainbows caught below Fall Creek.