Late October can throw a variety of surprises at you and this year was no exception. Trout fishing had been rated as “hot” but on Thursday someone turned on the spigot and the water level jumped from 3,600cfs to 4,500cfs; besides more water there were more leaves in the water and the bite was a little off. But just like in years past, trout and whitefish can’t resist the egg bonanza when the Chinook are spawning.
This fish a long is one of our clubs most popular and was well attended. The weather was pretty mild, the wind was light and everyone got into fish with some breaking into double digits. Rich got a big sucker that pulled hard and fought long; for a while we thought it was a small steelhead. The day before Darryl did get a chrome steelhead that was quickly released. Tim got a double on redsides fishing a two fly rig.
Interestingly we all had a much higher than average number of missed strikes & short bites today. The hot fly was some sort of small orange egg pattern but all flies with orange on them worked.
There were no Bighorn Sheep playing on the wall this day but we had some good sightings right along the road.
Thanks to everyone for coming! Next month we will try to hit the Kilchis River for Chum Salmon but if the water conditions are poor (like they have been the last 4 years) we will go to an Oregon Fishing Club lake.