Great Days, Good Days, Tough Days!
Beautiful weather. Low 80s and partly cloudy most days. Light rain a couple days, but not enough to run you off the water. Expecting low 80s into next weekend. Great!
Last five days we have had no generation during the morning and early afternoon hours. They have turned on one unit for 1-2 hours in the afternoon then back off. Lots of low water time.
Great days, good days, and tough days. That’s why they call it fishing. With the no generation days we are having, dissolved oxygen levels in the river have been really low. They are injection oxygen on various days, but not every day. Fish are hitting and fighting hard. You just have to find them.
Don – 9/9/20
Carolyn on the water Wednesday with Don and Steve from Illinois. They have been fishing with us for over ten years now. Anyway, it was a really good day for them. Don’s said it was probably his best day.
Steve – 9/9/20
Lots of quality fish on a #16 or 18 gray scud under the UV salmon egg, or stripping the JQ streamer on a 1.5 ips sinking leader.
Thursday was a good day. Dana had Ed from Louisiana out for half a day. They fished the ruby 2
Robert – 9/10/20
midge and the white grub. Meanwhile, Carolyn had her guy, Robert, from Kansas City, catching on the red soft hackle trailing a black wooly bugger, or a ruby 2 midge.
Friday, we had to look several places to find fish. Carolyn had John and Dwight on the water again. Worked several places and picked up a few fish just about everywhere we looked but there was no place to pick up very many fish. So we rowed a lot and caught fish on the JQ streamer and a black copperhead midge. Dana had Al and Chandra out for the morning. They were catching on the black copperhead midge or the white grub.
Susan – 9/12/20
Susan and Deb fished Saturday with Carolyn. Off to a slow start, but finished good. It was the B-bug under a #16 gray scud or stripping a #16 red soft hackle behind the JQ streamer.
I know I keep repeating myself, but yesterday we spotted 6 dead trout in a very small area. Please take a little extra time when releasing your fish. I know they are fighting hard….wouldn’t you?, so they seem strong….but Just take time to hold them upstream a little longer and really get their wind back. They are operating in very low dissolved oxygen levels.