What's Going On....

[Phil Lilley]

Just a quick update:

Trout fishing is still excellent for the most part. They've been leaving the water off for most of the day, running it mid afternoon till after dark. I got out Tuesday evening with an old friend who's visiting this week from Denver. The water was off and no wind. We boated to Andy's house and worked the area down to the narrows throwing 3/32 oz sculpin jigs and they were eating them up. I don't remember seeing that many trout that active for so long before- they were all over the surface midging as well as leaping out of the water after the adult midges. Big rainbows, small rainbows... there was a lot of floating algea and tree spores on the surface which made it hard to keep stuff off the jig but the trout didn't seem to mind. Caught quality rainbows till dark.

Yesterday we tried to get out later in the afternoon after they started running water. The moss from Table Rock was very bad making it impossible to fish, even at the dam. We made a couple of drifts, caught one nice rainbow on a jig and gave up. Brett Rader was drifting with 2 clients and catching fish though so it wasn't impossible. I had a couple of rookies and wasn't set up to fish like Brett so we didn't stay long.

This moss usually clears up by June. It's an annual thing. At least they're not running it too much. When the water is off, there's no moss, just algea on the surface and it's not that bad.