06-26-2009, 07:45 AM
Hit East Canyon Tuesday and fished hard from the bank from 10A to 3P throwing the best jigs I knew of in all the good looking spots and not a single smallmouth or crappie came out to play. [frown]These non-stop cold fronts have really been a jinx this year but the warm weather should be here to stay before long. The crappies spawned intermittently during warm spells and you can see their fry swimming along shallow shoreline cover.
I decided to trout it out because they are always ridiculously easy to catch at EC. I ran into another angler on the bank who was just out after work to have a little fun and I showed him the bait rig I use and we both slayed the trout. On the average, each of us was hooking a rainbow every 5 minutes or so until we left when the sun went behind the mountains and the mosquitoes tried to carry us off along with my roommate's Chihuahua.[:/]
Wednesday I went to S and M..., (I know, bad abbreviation,) and fished the pool beneath the spillway and the stream inlet above the lake. Despite the high runoff and the moderately stained water, the fishing was awesome. I caught 1 cutbow, 1 Brookie, 3 Tigers, and seven rainbows beneath the dam in a couple of hours on flies, spinners, and Rapalas.
Above the reservoir, I fished the slack river water just above the inlet with the same lures and the Rainbows and Cutthroat were hitting them hard. I lost count after a while but I'm sure that my 4 hours there ended up with somewhere around 30 trout. I would have been really dangerous if I had gotten into my waders and moved out and away from the brush so I could have fished the river more thoroughly. It was still a heck of alot of fun. I'll have to hit it again when the river recedes a little.[
] By the way fly guys, they were rising to what looked like BWO's from 5P until I left at 7P.
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I decided to trout it out because they are always ridiculously easy to catch at EC. I ran into another angler on the bank who was just out after work to have a little fun and I showed him the bait rig I use and we both slayed the trout. On the average, each of us was hooking a rainbow every 5 minutes or so until we left when the sun went behind the mountains and the mosquitoes tried to carry us off along with my roommate's Chihuahua.[:/]
Wednesday I went to S and M..., (I know, bad abbreviation,) and fished the pool beneath the spillway and the stream inlet above the lake. Despite the high runoff and the moderately stained water, the fishing was awesome. I caught 1 cutbow, 1 Brookie, 3 Tigers, and seven rainbows beneath the dam in a couple of hours on flies, spinners, and Rapalas.
Above the reservoir, I fished the slack river water just above the inlet with the same lures and the Rainbows and Cutthroat were hitting them hard. I lost count after a while but I'm sure that my 4 hours there ended up with somewhere around 30 trout. I would have been really dangerous if I had gotten into my waders and moved out and away from the brush so I could have fished the river more thoroughly. It was still a heck of alot of fun. I'll have to hit it again when the river recedes a little.[
] By the way fly guys, they were rising to what looked like BWO's from 5P until I left at 7P.[signature]