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Not my idea (I first heard it listening to some podcasts from Wet Fly Swing) but the notion of a system simmilar to big game lottery tags but for say 3-4 days of fishing for highly renowned rivers or sections of rivers seems to make alot of sense to me in theory. I'll be the first to admit that...

We were throwing size 4 sculpin patterns with lots of natural colored rabbit fur and stinger hooks. There's probably innumerable variations on that overall design concept that could have worked just as well last weekend so I'll leave the specifics up to you ;)

Haha there were definitely some joyous expletives thrown about when I got my first good look. Any day I get to shake hands with a native fish like that is a great day.

Longtime lurker and occasional commenter so here's my first foray into a report! Apologies if the formatting/pictures come through wonky. I spent the weekend in one of my favorite E. WA river valleys. I had a hankerin to go head hunting for large aggressive trout and was determined to only throw...

This is the first season where I feel like I actually have a grasp at just how big these fires can get, and it isn't even August yet :( For me at least I feel like it can be hard to understand the scale of these things from what is often reported on the news. But over memorial day this year some...

Great write up and pics, reminds me of some similar looking water I get to call my second home whenever I visit family in Crested Butte.

Agreed. Feels like one of those, "If only common sense were common" cases. The part that frustrates me most is the statement they said after, "WDFW does not expect there will be significant negative impacts to orcas, Puget Sound salmon fisheries, or future hatchery operations from this loss of...

I'm going to try and restrain myself from getting too heated because at the end of the day it sounded like a genuine accident but, c'mon. Having enough water in the tank is like... requirement No. 1 for raising fish. Do better. *Shakes head in defeat*

I did see a small school yesterday, hard to count but I'd guess between 25-50 fry. It was also pretty close to a creek mouth, like maybe 25 yards away from the creek as I was making my way out onto a neighboring point. Maybe things are just a little slower than normal?

Thanks for the tips, much appriciated!

Only found two that wanted to play yesterday. Both off the same beach, so it might even be the same fish. Had to be out there early before the sun got too high and the wind picked up.

Thanks everyone for the replies and explanations. I had no idea about the history of the dams' operation and that 1991 deal. I had kinda assumed something to the effect Curt was describing where the drastic change in flows is the root of the problem, not necessarily how much flow but the rate of...

Just had a realization that the pattern started back on the 15th when we had the relative scorcher of a weekend. Probably just early (and abundant) runoff from all the drainages up there into ross, diablo, and Newhalem. So that's my new guess.

Lol set myself up for that one. Agreed wholeheartedly.

Hey y'all. I'm still in the beginning of learning how to read flow data and how that affects my fishing plans, so I have a question for the more experienced folks on the forum. Is this flow pattern normal? Or some glitch in the data? I'm aware of a few patterns like seasonal runoff...