White River streamer evening
Fished on 5/17 with Evan and John. The flows were at a plus or minus 20,000 cfs. We fished from the dam to Gastons on a half day evening trip.
Started out nymph fishing and did pretty well considering they turned on all 8 units from no generation in an hours time. John was very new to nymphing techniques and didn't particularly enjoy deep nymphing so we started fishing streamers.
Off the bat we caught a 19-20" brown (pictured above). We landed a couple "nice" fish but nothing monstrous. We got into a few pockets where I had been seeing some really large wolf packs of browns during low water. It seemed like every other cast these fish were chasing it out or taking a swipe at us. A few monsters (mid to high 20 inch range) ate the fly right off the gunnel, but it is hard to "smoke the barrel on a fish when an angler is dancing it on a slack line to entice the bite.
The fish finally got settled into a rhythm with the flows, but then the dam dropped the water two feet in the matter of minutes pushing the bite off once again.
We could have got them pushing the bobber grind (nymphing) with the typical worms, midges, sowbugs, etc. etc. but my hands were proverbially tied in that aspect.
Sometimes as anglers and guides alike, we strive for the style points, but on a half day with some odd ball conditions, you've just got to get down and dirty to get the job done. If you don't...you'll only put 9 fish in the boat in the matter of 4 hours.
Not my peak performance to say the least. Long drive home.
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