Big Lost Report.

[chrome_junky]

First off thank you all for the access info! Secondly I would say the trip was a success. It was very cool when we arrived. It felt like an October morning when I started out at the south access camp ground. The river is low and you can pretty much wade any where you want to go. The river is absolutely beautiful and fish and fly fishermen are every where. It was a slow morning for my partner and I. In the calm pools, trying to get large rainbows to sip a size 20 trico spinner when they are eating size 24 spinners is no easy task. We still managed a few of the smaller fish before we took a break for lunch.

Around 1pm a pmd hatch popped off and the fishing picked up some. you had to present the fly down stream and on 6x or lighter tippet. Any thing else the fish wouldn't touch it. Again we managed a few fish.

Around 4pm the hatches died off and we decided to go check out below the dam. Upon arriving I had an over whelming urge to strip a steamer in the pool directly below the spillway. It paid off. On my second cast and strip I hooked and landed my biggest fish of the day. A nice cutthroat. The next two cast and strips resulted in hook ups also but I lost both. Then the steamer fishing just shut off nothing for over 45 minutes. With a storm moving in and only a couple hours of light left I changed up my tactics again. I set up a nymph rig with a size 16 bead head Prince nymph and a size 18 copper John. I fished a couple runs just below the pool at the spill way. Again changing it up payed off and I had my most productive part of the day. Between 5pm and 7pm I landed over 20 fish and probably fought and lost just as many. Some of the rainbows I caught were butterballs. Shaped like football's. Around 7pm there was a bolt of lightning and a crack of thunder. Then the heavens opened up and torrential downpour ensued. What a way to end the day.

I took a few pictures but ly right after the big cutty on the streamer my phone died so I didn't get to document the nymphing extravaganza.
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[hooknhunter]

Sounds like you had a great trip. Sometimes I enjoy the challenging trips as much or more than the frenzied ones where fish come easy. If that cut in the last picture is a small one, then I'd really like to have seen the picture of the streamer hog.

Thanks for sharing.
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[cpierce]

Beautiful pictures and great report. Thanks for sharing your adventure.
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[idahoron]

Sounds like a fun trip. Not pointing fingers but how does a guy look at the pictures that big? I have to scroll over and hunt around for the object in the picture. To be honest I couldn't see the pictures well at all being that big. I tried to see the first one and didn't try the others. [:/]
Ron
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[chrome_junky]

Sorry Ron. I wasn't aware the photos were showing up that big. I'm uploading them from my phone so maybe they are not getting resized properly.
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[Bardic]

Anyone having size problems, just for future reference, you can hold ctrl and scroll your mouse scroll wheel up or down to resize web pages. One tick down was enough to shrink the pic to fit, usually pages will just do it on their own once the pic finishes loading.
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[hooknhunter]

Pictures were just the right size, IMHO. Keep them coming.

RWAFSTCA.
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[idahoron]

[quote Bardic]Anyone having size problems, just for future reference, you can hold ctrl and scroll your mouse scroll wheel up or down to resize web pages. One tick down was enough to shrink the pic to fit, usually pages will just do it on their own once the pic finishes loading.[/quote]


Cool trick thanks.
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[idahoron]

No problem. I thought at one time there was a rule about the size of the pictures for us with slower access. The size reduction trick was what I needed. Cool pictures I know where that is at. Ron
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