Fishing Report

[Phil Lilley]

Busy day at church today but got to get out this evening for about an hour. Boated to Fall Creek - there were quite a few trout midging, alittle chop on the water- perfect! I thought. Turned out the trout were alittle picky.

Tried a brown crackleback - because that's what I finished with yesterday. Caught one small rainbow. Switched to a black #18 vinyl-bodied zebra midge under an indicator 48 inches... too deep. Shortened up to 20 inches and moved out on the gravel bar at Fall Creek and caught about 6-8 rainbows, mostly small. Wind died down but the trout kept feeding- the midge coming off were good size- #18 and grey. I stayed with what I had on and caught a few more before heading down to Short Creek. I wanted to see if there were any big rainbows left from the fall season.

They were midging on the bar at Short- alot of them were way back in the mouth of the creek in very shallow water so I shortened up to 6 inches and tied a #20 black zebra on. It was tough getting them to take it but I finally got one to. Moved out and down before it got dark and caught one more rainbow.

Dissapointing fishing but beautiful evening. The colors on the water are still pretty.

[Phil Lilley]

Follow up- talked to Mike Scott and his buddies- they fished the Rocking Chair all day and did exceptional. Did the best on a super scud #18 fished on the shelf rock, north bank. He released a 20 inch rainbow with lots of other nice quality browns and rainbows.

Also- they mentioned seeing alot of dead trout- between 12 and 18 on the bottom from the night before. I thought low DO or they were caught and fought to death by night fishers. Not sure but it is disturbing. DO levels are very, very low at night.