July 2nd.

[taxidermist]

We hit the water a bit earlier today around 9:30am. Had a guest in the boat my cousin Sarah. She has never fished until today. One lucky gal, she managed to catch a 23 inch male Brown trout!!!

We caught several bows on small spinners about any color. then the water started coming up. The bite slowed. My son went to his favorite crankbait and caught a 19 inch brown and backed it up within minutes with a 15 inch brown.

We decided that to help Sarah out we would drift the deeper area of the hole. We rigged her up with Power bait and it was not long until she hooked up on the big brown, beginners luck? Nope just a good guide!!! lol.

The water dropped pretty fast mid afternoon, we dropped Sarah at the Rim SHoals access and headed on down river. Bite was still slow on what normally triggers bites.

So we slipped to the powerbait and the bite started again this was about 6:00pm.

Just before the sun started to set the bite took off on spinner baits in about any color.

We finished the day with 47 rainbows, 7 cutthroat and 19 browns.

When we hit the ramp time was 8:52pm, but most of the bite was the last three hours.

We are trying a new 35mm camera, it has a waterproof case, I used it scuba diving so we will see.

Thursday or Firday will be the next trip. Then Sunday I am taking one of my Military buddys down ont he river to see if he can catch some fish.

Tightlines

John