After looking at and drooling over this stretch of river i finally decided to pull the trigger and fly fish it. I went way upstream, i wont say the exact location, but i will say it wasnt easy, after fording the river in a few places and walking through untrailed forest i made my way down to the river and was immediately blessed with an excellent looking run which turned out to be be the most productive water i fished that day. I used my trusty redington 3wt full floating line 8' of tippet and a size 6 olive wooley bugger with shorter than average hackle and gold wire ribbing, this fly produced hit after hit all day. I fished left handed again due to my healing wrist to stay within my doctors recomendation. I caught and released 14 rainbows all between 7"-10" they really put up a good fight in the current on that 3wt surprisingly. The river was beautiful, the weather was perfect, and the trout were magnificent, very pretty fish, and alot of fun to catch. I watched dozens of trout chase, nip, or even go totally airborne trying to get my fly. Some trout were in the holes, some were in fairly shallow water hiding behind rocks in the riffles, it was a very fun river to fish, and i most certainly will return again.


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