Saturday, October 20 Generator Report

[Slappin' Hacker]

Do I have a correct understanding: they're currently generating almost all the time? If "yes," what's smart to try (fly fishing, of course), first light til dusk on a sunny day, under these generator conditions?

Sorry to ask such a "rookie" question, but I'm a rookie. What else would you expect?

[Phil Lilley]

They aren't generating right now. Water isn't moving at the dock at least.

Not a whole lot you can do wading except wade the cuts and coves including the outlets which are crowded.

Get a boat and drift. If it's not too much water (1-2 units), you can get a scud, wooly, san juan worm, egg down to the bottom under an indicator pretty easy and drift.

[Greg]

On some days when they are generating I have some decent results even when wading. The key for me is to get the fly down to the bottom quickly and find areas where the current is not quite as strong. I'll sometimes use a 2 fly setup. The first fly being a bigger 10 or 12 weighted fly and the 2nd a much smaller weighted fly. Sometimes I'll crimp a split shot above the 1st fly or between them. And a big enough indicator to float the whole thing.

The problem is that the above rig is not much fun to cast. In fact it's a lot of work and tangles are sometimes frequent. I never do as well as when the water is off either - but it's still worth trying.

Good luck,

Greg

[zander]

I went down hoping for generators running so I could try to do some stripping and hook into a big brown after dark. About 2ish maybe they turned on 2 generators and they ran maybe an hour and then they were off, I left at about 7:45 PM and as of then still nothing running. I used a two to three fly setup most of the day. All but one fish was caught on a scud, the exception being a decent rainbow on a crackleback. Ended up with 3 rainbows and two browns and a sunburn.