Takin' a ride of the dry side...

GAT · Friday at 12:30 PM

I've never caught a small smallmouth trout (whitefish) and always wondered why. You caught a four inch guy so I guess there are small ones out there.... but for me it is danged rare to catch small ones.

goinoregon · Friday at 12:48 PM

nice. it just gets cooolllld when the sun dips below the canyon top

bobduck · Friday at 2:21 PM

goinoregon said:
nice. it just gets cooolllld when the sun dips below the canyon top

Fished this river in November and nearly froze my webbies off. Took forever, it seemed, to get my neoprene waders off and into my rig. Went home and bought some simms lightweights I could layer up under. And then never went back in November. Here summer lasts until Oct. 15 and winter starts on the 16th. Learned that the hard way.

Pink Nighty · Friday at 2:38 PM

bobduck said:
Fished this river in November and nearly froze my webbies off. Took forever, it seemed, to get my neoprene waders off and into my rig. Went home and bought some simms lightweights I could layer up under. And then never went back in November. Here summer lasts until Oct. 15 and winter starts on the 16th. Learned that the hard way.

You're forgetting fall! From 1135am on the 15th to 445pm on the 15th.

clarkman · 2025-02-09T10:32:17-0800

GAT said:
I've never caught a small smallmouth trout (whitefish) and always wondered why. You caught a four inch guy so I guess there are small ones out there.... but for me it is danged rare to catch small ones.

I VERY rarely catch them that small. Somehow I've managed some half a dozen sub-4"ers in the last couple of years. It could just be that I contact-nymph a lot more out there and just catch more so have a little larger numbers pool to draw from, I dunno though.....at the same time, I don't get as many of the truly large short-fin graying as I used to either.