Fishing Forum

My buddies were planning a trip this week for the Green, Monday-Thursday. I am one of those poor saps with the 8-5, M-F office job, and was conflicted for quite some time on whether to ask for the time off. But this is the Green, for cryin out loud, so I did it anyway of course!

Got there about 8PM Tuesday night and waited for my buddies to finish floating at Little Hole. I've been on a real Chamois Caddie kick lately (14-16 and buggy, with a few WD fibers on the thorax for legs). The fish liked them too, and I hooked into 4 before it got dark. Apparently 2 of them were *whales* since they managed to snap my 5X tippet. When it was too dark to see to tie another fly on, we headed back to the camp ground where I drank far too much and stayed up way past my bedtime.

Woke up and 6:30 and it didn't take me long to realize where I was (the GREEN!), so went back to the river. Caddis wasn't working quite as well but I did get some decent results with a tiny "hot cocoa" colored scud.

That afternoon I embarked on my first pontoon trip. After flailing around with my apparently pitiful oar control in fast water, I finally made it to the 2nd eddy without peeing my pants (it was close though). I thought it was going to be a really really long float... but once I relaxed and got the hang of things, it was AWESOME.

There was virtually no surface activty, so we made our own with Big Giant Gnarley Terrestials. Cicadas, Crickets, and hand-tied Stimulators (AKA "The Kimulator") made for some big fish and epic rises.

Finished the trip at a total of 10 fish landed, and the smallest was 13". Some of the rainbows were real butterballs, could barely get my hand around them. Even all the browns were good and fat, not a snakey one to be seen. See pics for representative examples... shame the pictures didn't turn out better, they were really beautiful fish.

Didn't get home until 1AM and had to work the next day. Aghh.. but totally and completely WORTH IT!
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cool! if you ever get the chance i highly reccomend you float the C section of the green. its like floating in a lake. fish are a little tougher to come by, but alot bigger!
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Can you float the c -section in a float tube, I have never been but going in two weeks, and bigger fish sound good to me, if so where is a good spot to put in at.
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Totally jealous.....completely jealous.....extremely jealous.....thanks for posting. Sounds like an AMAZING trip...we should have hit that river while at the gorge!
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i woudlent see why you couldent do it in a float tube. there is one set of "rapids" on the c section, but they are not rapids, its just a long riffle. the c section is very very slow. a few times i had to row down steam just to keep moving.
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Sounds good I was going to take it just in case, super excited to go, hope it doesnt let me down, if nothing else it will be a learning expierence.
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I fish the C-section exclusively and have even floated it in a float tube a time or two and totally regret that decision. It's not the rapids at the entrance to Little Swallow that worried me, it's the shallows and debris you need to watch out for. If you get your tube hung up in some debris or barb wire in moving water, you're likely to meet your maker sooner than you planned. I used to be much more adventurous in my youth and I used to do it without too much forethought. Now I see the extreme dangers in doing that.

All in all, you could probably do it pretty easily as I did, but man that would be a crappy way to die.

TRH
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Those are some nice looking fish! I had heard they were expecting a hoard of mormon crickets out there this year. Did you see any to speak of? Or is it just a rumor?
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There were plenty of crickets to be heard, and about a size 10 was pretty effective on the water. But we didn't have to call in the seagulls... just yet.

I think it will probably take me at least another dozen floats before I get sick of the A section. Good to know there's wilder water to be explored when that happens though.

Maybe it's just that I'm impatient, or still new enough to fly fishing, but I still personally prefer action over the size. With most fish this trip 16"-18", that's plenty big for for me, especially when they were so healthy and feisty.

I've got 20+ inchers on the North Fork of the Snake and even a couple on the Logan that felt like dragging in a log, and were about as much fun. I know there are a lot of variables that affect how a fish fights but these are not among my favorite memories. To each his/her own I guess.
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No way would I consider the C in anything other than a drift boat. Some areas are shallow, and as stated it is slow water. Even in a drift boat, forward rowing frog water, it is an all day event. Plus the fish are very skitish. I won't float if I know someone has floated before me.
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