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Well I am back a day early but it was a great trip none the less. As for the title if you havnt heard the song the stanley stomp check it out its by Muzzie Braun a stanley local.

Well anyway back to my report. We headed out Tuesday morning and got the squaw creek at around 2 we fished for about 3 hours I had 2 fish on played one out and and he came unhooked at my feet and had what felt like a B fish on for a minute or so before he shook loose. But that was it. Around 5 we headed up to stanley and grabbed a bite to eat and watched the jazz game.
Wendsday morning it was cold, not the 13 the forcast said but a windy 27. We got to the hole at 6 and had a hit on the first pass. I dont think we picked up our first fish until around 8 but then it was on. Between 3 of us we landed 23 fish by 12. And had alot more that shook loose or that we missed hooking. After noon the fishing died. We tried to pick up that 3rd fish, sense we didnt want to limit out while the bite was good. But we never did fished until 5 and headed back in. This morning we got up early to another cold morning and hit the river by 6 we hit them early today catching 5 by sun up I kept 2 and grandpa kept 1. We went back down to squaw creek wanting that big B. Fished until about 2 without a bite. We talked to the guy that owns the gas station there in clayton he said the cage has had close to 30 fish in it now. There were 8 more put in while we were there. They said that those fish are going to be used up the east fork. the f&g said that they have got more fish in the cages than have made it to the traps up the east fork "19". We stopped on the way home and looked down into the east fork and saw 2 big B's heading up. There were alot of what we guessed by there size to be chinnok fry coming down there were thousands of them and big.

I will get some pics of the fish we kept tomorrow morning wouldnt you know it i forgot my dang camera. Oh and my deoderant. I think it may have kept the compitition away.


oh was going to say the hatchery had 1650 fish as of sunday they hadnt updated the board sense.
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Great report. I dream of finally hitting the run and having a day or two like you guys did. One of these days.....
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Just keep the fish coming through next friday!
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WOW!!! That is an excellent trip. Still another two weeks or so before I get out and really start fishing.

Windriver
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i think there should be plenty of fish next weekend and probly the next couple weeks they were still catching alot of fish at the cable hole/yankee fork. There were probly 50 cars there!!
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Awesome, thanks for the good reports! One more question....how was water clarity and do you think water clarity will hold out for a bit yet? I know some warmer temps are forecasted, but not sure about the temps in the higher elevations.
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when we went up it had a bit of colour up until the east fork but above it was clear but very low.
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Great report! My party did really well in that area the 4th & 5th. I think we counted 39 netted with 11 of em planters. Can't count how many spit the hooks!lol Wish I could break away from the grind stone to hit it again. Gotta love them Steelys!!
Smiles Always!
MA
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i think this was probly my last trip for the year but it sure makes you leave wanting more after a good trip like that. I was suprised by the lack of ppl up by stanley also but it was in the middle of the week.
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Hit the braun brothers reunion. Massive music fun times
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i knew there would be someone who had heard it. I listen to there cd's every steelhead trip i go on I always say its good luck.
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Braun brothers, his kids are reckless kelly they are killer and you can't forget about kip Attaway
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I got my butt absolutely kicked by a big'un Saturday night. I'd probably caught 50 lbs of steelhead one smolt at a time, but hadn't hooked up once with the real deal until about sundown when I thought I'd hooked the bottom for the 100th time... and then the bottom started to move. I played the fish (or rather, it played me) a good 15 minutes before it finally had enough and said c-ya. My 5 wieght works fine on them little 5- 8 pounders, but by the looks of this one it might have been a B-run that snuck through- definitely a double digit fish and I couln't do anything with my little baby trout rod. AWESOME experience.

By the way. I'm looking to get a 8 or 9 weight set up now. Anybody got one they'd like to trade for a bunch of fly gear/ i have what's left of a fly-shop that went under in my garage and I could trade a ton of tieing gear or flies, lines, etc.
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