Creatch’r
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I’ll have to ask the guys who have been fishing it all summer where those thermal refuges are. They must know.
My river is cooking!
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Dr. Magill
Life of the Party
Before or after you fuck em up?
Stream temperatures are finally down in a more fish friendly range; today for the NF opener at 10 AM stream temperature was 60 degrees. That temperature continues to be higher than normal for this time of year. Fished the main stem twice this week and the NF this AM.
Some observations: quite a bit of changes in the river morphology in the last year with a net loss of fisher friendly water (at least for the cutthroat angler). My sense is that the fine material from the Oso slide is moving through the system. Lots of coho in the river though most are smallish ( 3 to 5#s) though saw some larger fish jump. The coho are throughout the main stem and well into the NF. Seems to be reasonable numbers of cutthroat in the river though the majority of the fish are first time returners (8 to 11 inches). The portion of second returners (12 to 14) seems below average to my eye while the number of multiple spawners (more than 14 inches) contributed a higher than normal contribution to the catch (about 25% over the 3 days.).
The number of steelhead parr were well below normal with few seem in the main stem with increasing numbers of as I moved upstream into the North Fork. Noted that the October caddis in the north fork was essential absence; could only fine a single specimen in my travels. Also found significant amounts of filamentous algae on the rocks and sticks in the North Fork (something that has been largely absent in the pass.
While the cutthroat population looks healthy the river does not.
Curt
Some observations: quite a bit of changes in the river morphology in the last year with a net loss of fisher friendly water (at least for the cutthroat angler). My sense is that the fine material from the Oso slide is moving through the system. Lots of coho in the river though most are smallish ( 3 to 5#s) though saw some larger fish jump. The coho are throughout the main stem and well into the NF. Seems to be reasonable numbers of cutthroat in the river though the majority of the fish are first time returners (8 to 11 inches). The portion of second returners (12 to 14) seems below average to my eye while the number of multiple spawners (more than 14 inches) contributed a higher than normal contribution to the catch (about 25% over the 3 days.).
The number of steelhead parr were well below normal with few seem in the main stem with increasing numbers of as I moved upstream into the North Fork. Noted that the October caddis in the north fork was essential absence; could only fine a single specimen in my travels. Also found significant amounts of filamentous algae on the rocks and sticks in the North Fork (something that has been largely absent in the pass.
While the cutthroat population looks healthy the river does not.
Curt
Hillbilly Redneck
wishin I was fishin
I always hit the Harold Engles memorial cedar grove trail when up on the NF Sauk. Don’t know about the fishing but the trees are awesome!
Fished yesterday morning in Oso and actually got chilled standing in the water first thing in the morning with fleece on and everything.
Then I go down by Trafton later in the morning and run into this dude standing out in the river with nothing but swimming trunks on. I must be turning into a wimp.
Fished yesterday morning in Oso and actually got chilled standing in the water first thing in the morning with fleece on and everything.
Then I go down by Trafton later in the morning and run into this dude standing out in the river with nothing but swimming trunks on. I must be turning into a wimp.
