Went to 11 mile Canyon today, most of the river is frozen but the 2miles+ from the dam is open. hundreds to thousands of rainbows stacked up in there too. But the bite was hard. Ended up catching 12 and Cody caught 5. Caught the majority on San Juan worms and copper johns. I tried a ton of different midges but no luck. There was a gnat hatch going on (I didnt have any gnat patterns) and the water was practically boiling with all the rainbows tagging them these ladies that were fishing caught a couple this way . One guy was doing very well on a disco midge (also didnt have any of these). If you can figure out what these guys are eating and match it you can easily have over 50 fish day I could see them feeding off the bottom and they were hitting the surface.... Let me know when you go so you can teach me.
I know what you mean... I can see them feeding both under the surface and ontop but cant match whatever it is they are feeding on.
He was pretty excited, he had only caught 1 trout on the fly rod before that day, he has caught tons of bluegills but trout spit the fly faster then he could set the hook... Had to work with him alot on his drift and line control.
Because it is in a canyon, you have some protection, especially near the dam. When I'm getting beaten up on the Dream Stream, I often decide to take a leap off of the 11-mile dam into the canyon.
course so did minnows, nightcrawler, leeches and anything else thrown at them today. caught one eight inch walleye wich was more than the four boats I talked to combine, blame it on the full moon , the heat, whatever only thing I know is I lost four dozen worth of minnows with two blade baits ...
The hot summer days and water levels going lower by the day and the crappies moving around after post spawn definitely made for a challenge finding them but persistence pays off!
I heard about the Arctic Grayling late last fall and I've been itching to target them...I went up with my buddy Remy and GF and had some GREAT SUCCESS!! Threw a wide variety of stuff with no action (for the graylings at least), we landed a big brown, some Brookies, some Colorado River Cutthroat...
Always wanted to figure the crappie and once I actually set out to do it I found hundreds! Limited out for the first time after trying for the whole month of June. Wasn't too hard once i honed in on the area where I located them. Fast forward 4 days later and today they were gone. Here is my...
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