We started up in Lincoln Park and found a pool full of chinook right away. Rob and Tim both landed one right at legal fishing time and we continued working our way down river. We didn't see many fish until we got to a nice stretch of water in Island Park where we saw a couple splashing in a riffle. Rob landed a small coho and I managed a 24 inch female brown. We continued working down through Island Park and Rob and Tim each tied into two more Kings. As we got below Island park we started to see a lot of fish. Tim caught another big King and Rob and I starting spotting more browns. Rob landed two more browns as I worked a riffle that held both Kings and Browns. I was working a large coho in the afternoon when Rob came running down river with a huge fish in the net. At first I thought it was a huge King, but as he got closer I saw the orange spawning colors of a massive Brown! It was a huge fish, pushing 34 inches! Now we were on to something. As we continued downstream we began spotting browns all over. I finally tied into my first 30+ inch fish, a fat 31 inch female right as it was getting dark. We returned the next day and it wasn't long before we were hammering the browns again. I landed a couple of 27-28 inchers and Tim landed another fat female. I spotted a huge male close to 36-37 inches. I tried casting every fly I could think of at it, but couldn't entire it to take my fly. Later, Tim and I were fishing together when he hooked into a monster fish. at first I thought it was a big king... until I got the net under it. Another Monster Brown! This big male was 35 inches long and had an enourmous girth, definitely a 20 pound fish..

I decided to head up river to find my own pig and I soon spotted another huge male. It took one cast and the fish agressively took the fly. Fish on! The fish took off down river and then circled back towards me. I yelled for Rob to come up river with the net and we were able to get it in the net. I finally had caught my big hookjawed male. We taped him out to 33 inches and then let him go.

We continuing slamming the browns, with a couple more in the 28-33 inch range and an occasional Coho. The water was low, around 10 cfs, but the rain and clowds brought out a lot of fish. Darker colored wooly buggers and egg-sucking leeches produced the most fish.