
The Taylor had a couple pigs down in the catch
and release section, but with the flows so low they were spooked
easily. You could only get a couple of drifts with the larger
fish and if you had any drag the fish would swim off. The good
news
was that the river held a lot more smaller rainbows, meaning
that spawning has been successful the last couple of years. We
did manage to land one nice bow, about four pounds and many smaller
browns between 14-20 inches. I did break off a couple of nice
rainbows, one close to 28 inches that was holding under the bridge.
Fishing at night was good, not as many fish as last summer, but
there were some nice fish holding in the pool below the bridge.
Most fish were in the 20-22 inch range with a few larger ones.
We might have stayed and fished a couple more nights, but the
beavers didn’t seem to appreciate us being there. During
the day the best flies were the miracle nymph and the black beauty.
The flies didn’t matter so much as having drag free drifts
and not spooking the fish. At night we used mysis, although with
the lower flows it didn’t appear that many were coming
through the dam, but the fish still seemed pretty eager to take
them.
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