Thurs, Fri, Sat Night Report

[fly2fish]

Thurs. Dec. 9th

Got to the parking lot about 10:30, knew they had been running 4 units at 710 before I left the condo and had already rigged up to drift with lighted indicator. Had to go through 1 and half packages before I could get 1 to light. After starting down the stairs I could tell the water was already dropping because I expected it to be up to the 3rd step but it was below the last step. Started with peach egg on bottom with a couple no.6 shot about 4 inches above it, then a san juan worm about 18 inches above the egg and then a bh scud about 18 inches under the indicator. Caught 3 on the first 5 drifts all on the bh scud. Decided to take off the sj because of tangles and retie. Water finally leveled off at 705 around midnight. Continued to catch fish on both the scud and egg. Had 3 that made it into the current that I had to put on the reel they were pushing 18 inches (didn't measure any til Friday night). Quit around 2 am with 39 landed.

Friday Dec 10th

Fished with my sons friend Clint. Started about 10:45 water off and already down to 701.6. Went straight to Big Hole, I had him rigged with a black hibinator and I had an olive one. The first few were mostly dinks 10-12 inches but after an hour the size started improving with most at least 14 inches. Clint finally said he had a decent fish on and I had just cast behind him (facing north bank) and was walking over to him to use my net to measure his fish when I got a hit thought it was probably a dink since it was in real shallow water, went ahead and set the hook and continued over to measure his fish. It was right at 17.25 inches, we released it and I started bringing my fish in and realized it was no dink. It was an identical twin to the one we just released 17.25 inches. Before we could make another cast the horn blew downstream by the boat ramp somewhere. We went back and fished the bend above rebar and didn't notice the water coming up any so we went back to the lot and met a guy coming back from up by outlet 1 and he said he saw no signs of them turning on any water and the horn at the dam hadn't blown. Clint and I went back in at outlet 2 and fished above 2. After catching a few I switched to a white and gave Clint an olive and as I approached the line of rocks that run out from the north side I made a cast directly upstream to the rocks and before I could strip the slack out of the line I had a strong hit, it turned out to be the longest fish of the night at 19 inches but it was skinny like a spawned out female definitely not one of the footballs we had been catching. Ended the night about 3 am with 16 caught at Big Hole and 14 on the flats. Clint totaled about 6 but most of his were the bigger fish.

Sat night Dec.11th

Temp: 19 deg Wind: 40mph

I don't think so. May have been able to take the 19 deg. but not the 40mph wind.

Whats up with blowing the horn downstream and not releasing any water. Think they were just messing with us.

[gary2400]

I've had the horn thing happen to me several times and no water. But if you're down at the big hole you can't take the chance. I've wondered myself what the horn and no water is about.