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Fished the Snake the 18th thru 22nd above Asotin. Never have seen so many steelhead in one river as I did this year. Just driving the road one could continually see steelhead jumping and rolling. The river is extremely low and some of my favorite runs had no water over them so it was time to search out some new holding areas. That didn't work all that well not for lack of new low water holding area but because fish were not holding but always moving.
My girlfriend and I got bright sun Friday and Saturday and by Friday afternoon fish began to hold and we started hooking into fish but Sunday morning it started to rain again about 2 in the morning and weather became unstable and that was it for the most part. Two friends from Montana who had been over for over two weeks had had very little luck with just one 2 fish day until Friday evening and Saturday morning. They fished one productive run 1st light and each released 6 fish and lost about that many. My girl friend Sue and I stopped by the run about 8 AM to see how they were doing and I asked if they minded if Sue fished a pass right behind them for one pass before we moved to another run. It was OK and she hooked and lost 4 in about 15 minutes. The biggest fish she had ever hooked on a fly before this trip was about a ten inch trout so she got clobbered when hooked up to fish over 5 pounds. There were so many fish holding you could see them in a big line the entire length of the run just a few feet out from wading distance as one moved down the run.
The Snake is a river where fish just don't seem to come to the surface often if there is a change in weather. They got to be holding and usually that means periods of stable bright sunshine. We didn't get much of that and I don't see too much of it in the forecast the next week or so. The Grand Rhon had temps below 50 and some turbidity but a few fish were taken on the surface while we were over there.
We had a great time and though I didn't fish much but played guide I just enjoyed the canyon, river and night time camp fires in a place where you still can camp in so many places without permits and fees.
OC
My girlfriend and I got bright sun Friday and Saturday and by Friday afternoon fish began to hold and we started hooking into fish but Sunday morning it started to rain again about 2 in the morning and weather became unstable and that was it for the most part. Two friends from Montana who had been over for over two weeks had had very little luck with just one 2 fish day until Friday evening and Saturday morning. They fished one productive run 1st light and each released 6 fish and lost about that many. My girl friend Sue and I stopped by the run about 8 AM to see how they were doing and I asked if they minded if Sue fished a pass right behind them for one pass before we moved to another run. It was OK and she hooked and lost 4 in about 15 minutes. The biggest fish she had ever hooked on a fly before this trip was about a ten inch trout so she got clobbered when hooked up to fish over 5 pounds. There were so many fish holding you could see them in a big line the entire length of the run just a few feet out from wading distance as one moved down the run.
The Snake is a river where fish just don't seem to come to the surface often if there is a change in weather. They got to be holding and usually that means periods of stable bright sunshine. We didn't get much of that and I don't see too much of it in the forecast the next week or so. The Grand Rhon had temps below 50 and some turbidity but a few fish were taken on the surface while we were over there.
We had a great time and though I didn't fish much but played guide I just enjoyed the canyon, river and night time camp fires in a place where you still can camp in so many places without permits and fees.
OC
