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Chinook on a dry fly!?! - iliketofish - 06-23-2010 [inline P1230023.JPG] I should mention that it was a baby chinook [] I've been camping up on the Lochsa for almost the last week, and in my down time I took advantage of the westslope dry fly fishing. It was a blast to say the least. In the two and a half days that I got to fish I don't think I quite broke the 100 fish mark but it was close! Believe it or not Elk Hair Cadis and stimulators were the biggest producers, weird huh []? I didn't manage to get any big ones though, my biggest only went about 14 inches. In fact one of the highlights of the trip was when I fished a little tiny trib and the little cutties were jumping clear out of the water to get my fly. Here's some pics.... [inline P1230003.JPG][inline P1260029.JPG] [inline P1260024.JPG] [signature] Re: [iliketofish] Chinook on a dry fly!?! - TubeFisherman - 06-23-2010 [signature] Re: [iliketofish] Chinook on a dry fly!?! - drowning_flys - 06-23-2010 Nice pics and sounds like a great time [cool] [signature] Re: [iliketofish] Chinook on a dry fly!?! - kochanut - 06-23-2010 to cool! [signature] Re: [iliketofish] Chinook on a dry fly!?! - cpierce - 06-23-2010 I love the little streams! It looks like you don't have any runoff in the creeks there -- nice and clear. [signature] Re: [cpierce] Chinook on a dry fly!?! - iliketofish - 06-23-2010 There have been several big storms in the last couple of weeks and everything blew out, but the water is back down now, and very clear. But not much snow to speak of at all, I went for a drive way up in the mountains and only saw a little on the tops of the biggest mountains. [signature] Re: [iliketofish] Chinook on a dry fly!?! - riverdog - 06-23-2010 Sounds like a blast even if no big ones. And that salmon is bigger than the first few I ever caught- I was just to embarrassed to take pictures of them. [signature] Re: [riverdog] Chinook on a dry fly!?! - iliketofish - 06-23-2010 There's no shame in catching tiny fish They were kind of interesting, they were bigger than the juveniles I'm used to as well, and darker in color. I was camping with a F&G fisheries biologist and he was saying that they might be precocial males that didn't get the message to head to the ocean with everybody else. Interesting anyway [signature] Re: [iliketofish] Chinook on a dry fly!?! - ironrod - 06-23-2010 very cool to say the least! [signature] Re: [iliketofish] Chinook on a dry fly!?! - windriver - 06-24-2010 Makes me think its time to go blue-lining. That is when I find the blue lines or creeks on the maps and start exploring. I have every bit as much fun exploring small creeks as I do fishing the big rivers. Windriver [signature]