Spring R. 5/17-20/10

[denduke]

Just got back from Mammoth/Spring River the water's little cloudy, prolly helped not to spook fish....Lotta rainbows on brite stuff...Missed a couple of hoss rainbows.

18"

Next day same run, 20"

Found a wad of stockers in a flat run near the surface and caught bunch on a dry fly. They thought the Humpy was hatchery pellets, I guess

The browns liked my sculpins and cdads...the bows too.

Released them all to be caught another day... Thanks Arkie Land for some great trouting!

Couldn't edit the title...the dates should read 5/24-27/10...My bad.

[jdmidwest]

I was there last weekend, right after the 2 foot rise on the 20th. Friday, I dropped off my buddies and let them float while I cooked supper and sipped a few brews, river was a bad shade of Brown. Sat, floated, did not fish, watched the sideshows with the drunken floaters, river was still messed up but getting better. Sunday, the river cleared up alot and I fished till noon and caught several stockers above the falls at the Bayou.

Last year, this time, the river was stocked with old brood stock from the hatchery and we caught some biguns.

It was one of our annual get togethers, we stayed at Riverside and had a good time.

[denduke]

Thanks for the heads up JD. My dates were wrong...5/24-27/10...not 17-20 wrong week. Your right is was messed up week before. But great thing about the Spring it clears up and falls out pretty quick. Fished there last fall. Had a couple break off right below Dam 3 across the chute. There's still some around...

I had planned on camping and fishing JFK on the Lil Red but the non reserve spots were gone, ereything full up. I had been watching the low water/10 to 10 generation pattern even with 4' above pool and was gonna beat the holiday crowd. Got a cabin at Lobo/Libby and was gonna drive/fish but the dang powers that be decided on one generator for 3 days. I caught 2 in the Park as I discovered high water when I got there and noticed high water at Libby Shoals. Drats!!! So, we packed up and came to Mammoth. Third year now I've missed the Lil Red. Maybe things will settle down by fall. I expected to tangle with some chunk bows at the Spring and was pleaseantly surprised when I kept catching browns...

Here's a few I killed for the motel man. last year. It's a shame to watch the baiters kill gut hooked fish till they get 5 big ones. No wonder the snakes are so big...

Later DL

[DaddyO]

I like those sculpins and cdads also. Can you provide recipes for those?