Fishing Report

[Phil Lilley]

Less of the same... less generation than before and warming surface temps are driving trout upstream toward the dam and bass are following. Yesterday evening Colton, a young man who is staying with us for the month of July, caught a dozen blue gills off the back side of our dock- today I saw another black bass sunny himself on our boat ramp- we have lots of tiny fry schooling along the edge of the bank- I think they're bass. Very strange summer indeed.

Troutcam- dingy water. Not enough water running to change out the water that's here and boat traffic is stirring up the silt. But I did see something today that I haven't seen- a large school of rainbows moving across the screen. When rainbows are stocked, they tend to stay together for a while.

Power bait fishing- eggs- continue to be hot especially down around Cooper and up by Riverlake. Bill said there's a bunch of trout in front of their dock- they are catching them on micro jigs under a float 5-6 feet deep, olive or sculpin. It's good all the way to Fall Creek. Some nicer rainbows stocked I guess- that's what I've seen come in at least.

I talk about wind alot- for a reason. You can catch fish without wind but the difference is staggering if the wind is blowing just alittle. Jig and float or bait fishing, it doesn't matter.

When they are running water, drifting an egg fly or jig and float using a white or pink micro is good as well as throwing a white jig straight. Me and Scott Bailey (aka griffin) got out for a couple of hours last evening and fished from Lookout down past the narrows and did fair. He did fair on a jig and float using a white and an olive jig and I caught a couple on a sculpin jig straight. When the water started about 6 pm I thought it'd pick up but really didn't. But we came in instead of heading closer to the dam where I think we would have done better.

Fly fishing below the dam has been good. Linc fished a crackleback the other day when the chop was good and did real well. Beetle- small ones- are doing very good. Linc said there are tons of lady bugs up there.

[Phil Lilley]

It looks as if the Corp is changing up our generation pattern- may be. Water ran late into the night last night and is running again this morning. It's raining again and the system is south of us- good for the Arkansas people for sure... Dano! But we'll get alot of that water in Table Rock so they may be thinking they need to dump some.

We'll see in the next few days what they do.

[Danoinark]

Yep Phil we have had a nice steady rain since about 6 this morning, so it looks promising. Now if we could get this for about 3 days straight...Dano

[Phil Lilley]

Just got back in from fishing... they kicked on 2 more units at 11:30 am to 4 units. We drifted egg flies in yellow and orange, #12 gray and pink scuds and red and brown san juan worms with limited sucess. Caught 7-8 rainbows, 3 smaller than 12 inches. Best drift was from the cable to the bottom of the island (#3 outlet). But had 10 fishing out of a pontoon and most rookies so could have done better under diferent circumstances... may be. We'll try again later this evening.

[Danoinark]

Phil despite the steady rain we got this morning, it appears we have recieved only 1/10 of an inch today....not good.

Dano