03-04-2010, 02:57 PM
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We went Wed (yesterday). The weather was great. Near 60 and sunny most of the day with some light rain for about an hour.
We went all the way down to Corn Creek and then from there up a bit. That slow deep water below the MF was very difficult for me to cover with a fly rod. I couldn't get down deep enough, quick enough and so my tally for the day was 1 smolt, 1 cutthroat of about 14 inches and 1 sucker. I heard that there were tons of fish being caught from the MF down and saw a couple caught, but for me that water was a lot more difficult to fish effectively on the fly than some of the other runs I have fished further upstream.
Hoping to go up again in a couple of weeks above Challis if the fish have moved up that far.
The river is totally free of ice from at least Salmon down (which is all that I saw so I can't attest to upstream).
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We went Wed (yesterday). The weather was great. Near 60 and sunny most of the day with some light rain for about an hour.
We went all the way down to Corn Creek and then from there up a bit. That slow deep water below the MF was very difficult for me to cover with a fly rod. I couldn't get down deep enough, quick enough and so my tally for the day was 1 smolt, 1 cutthroat of about 14 inches and 1 sucker. I heard that there were tons of fish being caught from the MF down and saw a couple caught, but for me that water was a lot more difficult to fish effectively on the fly than some of the other runs I have fished further upstream.
Hoping to go up again in a couple of weeks above Challis if the fish have moved up that far.
The river is totally free of ice from at least Salmon down (which is all that I saw so I can't attest to upstream).
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