Fishing Report

[Phil Lilley]

Drove to the dam at 4 pm... wanted to try something different. I went armed with my jig box and fly rod. I debated taking my spin rod but thought if they didn't hit a jig, I'd throw a crackleback or something.

Is started at the TU stairs and fished up to outlet #2 throwing Leonard's bunny sculpin in white, black and purple and Brad's gray and a yellow scuplin- a couple of hits and lots of looks. Got up to outlet #2 and switched to an olive 1/32nd oz jig and immediately got hit. Caught one rainbow (pic) and hooked 2 more trout before getting a hard hit and breakoff. Of course I only had one. Tied on a 1/50 purple, sculpin and then a white and had several hard hits on each but no hookups. They would hit and run so hard they'd either break off or pull out.

There was a huge midge hatch this evening. Swarms of bugs- the trout didn't immediately come up on them but did later. I was sure tempted to switch to a crackleback or soft hackle but didn't.