Stream Conditions

[KC Angler]

Anyone in the BSSP area who give an update on the water levels and stream conditions? Anyone fished the stream since the flooding? 

[snagged in outlet 3]

Maybe Oneshot will chime in for you.

[Bnorm]

I was down there over the weekend but didn't fish at all. The water was still very high and off color. For perspective, it was still at the top of the whistle bridge. There were a few fisherman down there but hardly any fish being caught on Saturday at least. I walked the entire length of the stream round trip and saw one fisherman hooked up down in zone 3.

Most of the flyfisherman were trying to fish the backwater areas above the Holland and Big Dam and the most fish I saw on a individual stringer was 2.

From looking at the gauges it seems that the flow should be getting much closer to normal by the weekend time but with more rain in the forecast who knows what will be the case.

The park seems to be ok though. the large campground by the river was open and there wasn't noticeable damage outside of a large tree down on the bank in Zone 1. It looks like a ton of effort was made to clean up the hatchery first as that was clean as a whistle. Kudos to Ben and his staff down there.

 

 

[oneshot]

Ok just drove to the river this morning they still had the road blocked to the Wooden Bridge.

River is back in its banks so Spring should be good.

oneshot

[NoLuck]

I fished Saturday afternoon for a couple hours up at the spring. Water is still up to almost 3ft and pretty murky.  The flow was pretty strong.  

Didnt see many people catching anything to speak of.  I managed about 20 fish by fishing deep with a lot of weight and a huge mend to get it down to the bottom. 

This coming  weekend should be petty decent as long as they don't get a large amount of rain by then. 

[oneshot]

 

I fished Saturday afternoon for a couple hours up at the spring. Water is still up to almost 3ft and pretty murky.  The flow was pretty strong.  

Didnt see many people catching anything to speak of.  I managed about 20 fish by fishing deep with a lot of weight and a huge mend to get it down to the bottom. 

This coming  weekend should be petty decent as long as they don't get a large amount of rain by then. 

Well their calling for 3 inches of rain.

oneshot

[Bnorm]

I fished down there this past weekend and had pretty good luck fishing it deep in any slower water that I could find. The Red San Juan worm is always my go to lure when the water is high and murky and it produced a large number of fish albeit none above about 12". As NoLuck said the key is getting a good deep drift and managing your mends to work with the current. I don't think a single fish I caught was further than 15' from the bank.

There was a midge hatch on both Saturday and Sunday morning and there were a few fish looking up, hopefully as the water slows down the topwater bite will pick up but for now everything is deep.

I think the reason most weren't catching fish this weekend is that they refuse to fish where the fish are holding and instead electing to thrown their fly/lure out as far as they possibly can. The crowd was light this past week, I expect it to pick up now that schools are getting out for the summer.

[Gavin]

Always get a kick out of foolish anglers, especially the ones who think they need to immediately wade in waist high and stand where they should have been casting, LOL!

 

[snagged in outlet 3]

Always get a kick out of foolish anglers, especially the ones who think they need to immediately wade in waist high and stand where they should have been casting, LOL!

 

I prefer it, gives me room to fish behind them.

[laker67]

Fished a week ago monday and again today. Not much change in water level and clarity. Too high and too murky for my comfort zone. As said earlier, fish are deep and a little on the tuff side. At least for me anyway. Spin rodders seemed to be doing ok with flashy stuff. Good luck if you go.