Quick fishing report

[Phil Lilley]

Someone at the Corp must have gotten the valve at the dam jambed because the flow hasn't varied much in a while.  That's not a bad thing though.  Most of us like this slow flow - anywhere from 1,200 to 2,500 c.f.s..  Water temp remains about 44 degrees.

There's been several things working here for trout.  The Berkley pink Powerworm has been the hottest bait for most anglers, drifting and fishing it under a float 5-6 feet deep from Short Creek down past our dock. 

Minnows are selling like crazy and they're not using them to fish for crappie!  Babler said he drifted them from Fall to Short Creek and caught some nice rainbows.  They're using them down around Monkey Island too and doing well.  Night crawlers too, in the same streches.

They're still hitting spoons - Cleos and Kastmasters.  If you've been on social media today you would have seen this picture of Jack Harris and his trophy 25-inch brown caught today on a blue and silver Cleo near the mouth of Cooper Creek.

Duane has had some guide trips as well as taking some friends fishing this past week.  He's done well throwing jigs in the trophy area - white and white/gray 1/16th ounce up closer to the dam and sculpin/ginger from Lookout to Fall Creek with the Narrows being the hottest area by far.  He's using 2-pound line to throw the small jigs.

He also had a fly fishing tour this morning in which his clients caught decent numbers on gray scuds under a float.  But did the best stripping a sculpin pine squirrel in the Narrows area.

It doesn't look like we're going to get the big rain they'd forecasted ealier in the week.  Most of the rain will soak in seeing our ground is now pretty dry.  We could see a bump in lake levels in which the dam operators may turn up the flow a bit but nothing major... unless they miss their estimates.  We'll see.

[JestersHK]

Was Duane wade fishing the narrows on the fly rod?

Looks like a similar flow to what they ran a few weeks ago.  The half unit or whatever was interesting, but we personally had trouble finding where they stacked up with that flow. 

[Phil Lilley]

No boat.