WOW Two trips to RW in one week. (Fri & today)
The bite was slow but fish were caught. Once again Cindy catches the biggest fish (@7# 4oz) but I got to release several before I kept my limit.
We launched at the corp launch at Chief Joe dam at 0730. It was 17 degrees at the launch site (49 when we took out). the water temp was at 65 degrees. It was a beautiful run up river to the lowermost pens with tendrils of fog rising from the water and the sunrise over the mountains. Saw a coyote, but no deer this trip. Reached the Pens area, and there was a light current. We fished without much luck until around 0900 or so. We released a few small (2-3#) fish, but could see larger ones chase the lures. We used plastics (B-2 squid, minnow imitations, tails of plastic craws), black marabou jigs, wooly-bugger type flies, and my rendition of the famed pellet fly. I found out size is important, the trout woud "buzz" and lip my size 10 flies, but when we switched to a size 12, the bite was on. We only caught 5 on the pellet fly, but two of those were boated and another larger fish came off. It seemed the B-2 would stir the trout up, and they would swat it but only had two hook ups on the B-2 the whole time out. For us it seemed the fish were most active from 8-10 ft below the surface, It was a beautiful day on the water.
By the way, Aaron You got yourself a beautiful Boat, very nicely set up. It was nice to see You and Mike (I didn't catch your friends name). Hope you had a great time.