WOW!! Good for you for getting out and doing this. Thanks so much for posting your film. Best thing I've seen on PNWFF in a long time. Just beautiful. Comforting to know things like that still exist.
Hard to tell, they didn't look too beat up, if you've seen some of the videos we have shared cutthroat fishing we find big pools of them like this through September in rivers down here! Not sure what they are doing but look good and healthy. The ones that look skinny and spawned out we usually catch during steelhead season in January and Feb while trying to catch steelhead!That school seems to be hanging over the lighter colored bottom rather than the adjacent cobble. Is that bottom bedrock or sand?
The fish look in pretty good shape. Do you think that they are pre or post spawn?
Love this! time to get the wet suit on! If you bring a go pro like I did be sure to share I would love to see it!Awesome! I think I enjoy snorkeling the rivers almost as much as fishing. Sometimes I like to just ride the current just FLY through run, other times grab a root or boulder and watch the show like you. The practice has really taught me where fish actually lie and where they don't. And bonus you can't get skunked snorkeling. You've just inspired me to get back out there.
As a kid we tuned the af nooksack every summer. Starting around 10, my brothers and I would just swim it. Faster than being in a tube, for what that's worthI should start doing this in the summer, when it's too hot to sit around the house.
Can you theoretically "swim" entire floats in a day?
There were so many jigs and spinners in this river... I could have loaded up!I do this in late fall right after the typical closure on my local rivers and free float down to collect bobbers and jigs. I have a bucket slowly accumulating Beau Macs its good fun, should bring a camera next year. I run into quite a few poachers doing it though...