We got to the Norfork around mid-morning on Wednesday and immediately headed upriver to the C&R section. There was only one fisherman up near the island, so we started fishing the pools and riffles on the far side. Matt headed upriver to fish the heads of the pools, while I stayed down near the bottom of the island. I had spotted a pod of fish and it wasn't long before I was hooked up with a nice rainbow. I continued to fish the pod and catching an occasional fish, but nothing real large. A couple times I looked upriver and Matt was hooked up with fish. He caught maybe 4-5 out of the faster water of each of the pools, mostly rainbows, as he worked back downriver. I headed up above the island to a shallow spot that sometimes holds fish and there was another pod of rainbows bunched up. I hooked and landed 4-5 of them, with the largest being a chunky 17 incher. I worked my way back downriver and hooked into another nice rainbow, before loosing it when it shook its head. We spooked one nice brown in the 22 inch range from the tailend of one of the pools, but that was the only big fish we saw all trip. Matt did manage to hook and land one really nice brook trout in the 14 inch range. We finished out the day with around 12-15 fish caught each.

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The island area started to get crowded, so we decided to head downriver to a pool that had held a good amount of fish back in the fall. The pool appeared to have filled in compared to fall and hardly held any fish. We caught two small rainbows and that was it. We decided to head up to the dam to check things out. We fished a little in front of the boat launch and below Dry Run, but surprisingly didn't pick up any fish. They were a couple of other anglers around, and nobody appeared to be catching anything.

When we arrived at the river the next day, we discovered they had left the water on for an extra hour, so we decided to give it a try on two generators. It was snowing heavily, but the area below Dry Run was somewhat wadable, so we decided to give it a try. We fished the run for almost an hour in near white-out conditions without even a strike. The river finally started dropping, so we decided to head back downriver to the handicap lot and work back upriver. We pretty much had the entire catch-n-release area to ourselves all morning, which isn't surprising since we were the only ones crazy enough to be out driving around in the snow. Fishing was prett much the same as the prior day, slow but steady. We would get 2-3 fish, mostly rainbows, out of every likely holding area and then move on. No big fish were hooked or spotted.

The best fly by far again was trout crack, with black beauties, copperheads, san juans, and rainbow warriors also working well. It was cold both days, with highs in the low thirties and lows in the twenties. The river picked up close to 6 inches of snow the second day we fished it.