The Pestigo was running low when we arrived and had just been stocked with brown trout. I was suprised by the amount of weeds in the river. It was tough to get a drift without running through it and getting it caught up on our flies. We decided to head down river, hoping to come accross some early running chinooks. We each had a couple of follows from the small browns, but didn't manage to hook any. It appreared that it was still a little early for the chinooks, as we didn't see any in the upper river in the section below the dam.

September, 2004