Fishing Buddy Report

[chutejumper]

Got on the water early on the 15th about 6:30, water was a little higher than I expected and was moving at a fair pace. I had parked at the MDC ramp so I made my way down to just above the old KOA location. Started with a size 14 red zebra midge with silver wire, not much action out in the deep fast water, so I pulled back to the shallows back from the running current, reset at about 18 inches with a strike indicator. Landed 5 rainbows in the next hour and a half, fair fish 15 to 16 inchers, with a lot of fight. Noticed the water was slowly rising and increasing in speed so I moved back up to the stairs below the MDC ramp, and worked the slower water there for another 45 minutes. landed 2 more small rainbows there with the Zebra set deeper at about 36 inches. Changed to a size 16 gray scud, a couple of light strikes but no takers. Water got faster so I gave it up for the day.

Back on the water early the 16th around 7:00 am just at day light, worked the shallow slower water from the MDC ramp down to Clay banks. Hit a couple of pockets just above the chute at KOA where I landed several smaller rainbows one after another, nothing big around stocker size but put up a very good fight. Caught these on a size 16 black zebra with gold bead and wire, set shallow at about 18 inches. Tried several different flies from scud bugs thru egg patterns but it got very slow, ended back on the Black zebra as I worked my way back to the MDC ramp, fished for about 2 hours, landed 9 rainbows and broke off 1. all in all had a great time weather was good, caught trout, water was just a little faster than I usually fish.