Sat Sun Mon report

Got in the wee hours of Sat the 29 th and slept in got to area well above Tressel midday and in 2 hours 6 fish buzzed up. The guys had the bend above Tressel cut off from bank to bank. Went back to the house and did chores. CROWDS and the Follies are ON.
  Sunday wend down below 2A a ways amid large crowds. LOTS of fish moving through constantly for hours as well as many hanging out in pools and on beds. The crowd thinned considerably in the PM as weekenders went home. VERY aggresive fish  went along with the crowd going down to bout 1/3 of what it was at noon. Prior some had become a bit line shy.
  Monday was one of those precious days never to be forgotten. Got to the 2A pool bout 11 AM after meeting a carpenter at my place for a bit in the AM.
  The entire lower half of the 2A pool had NOT one other fisherman besides me and the tail was LOADED with aggressive fish. On the side I was on they first started coming in 6s and later by the dozen and later in the 20s. They never stopped coming into the pool and the males were feisty  as all heck  what with chasing each other and charging each other and snapping at flies regularly.
 Later I moved down around the bend and it was the same- fish all over the place and very few other guys. One of those few and far between days.
 Even helped a Soldier from Drum get his first King after he had fallen and broke his new rod.
 Today was dreary and chilly and misty and I bugged out--
 NEXT WEEK---
 
 

Great Post. wish I had been there!
 
L13

THAT will be when we need a few days of big water--lol.
 The decent rain the other night actually put the water up a few inches on Monday. Not from the depleted Res. of course but from local runoff. Every little bit helps.
  Hey -the Kings I saw were never running hard- just kinda plodding along like Kings do heading up. Some of the Females were flipping over and doin their twitchy thing even when there was no bed whatsoever visible- guess it was just their time-- this was seen a number of times. Perhaps they had been holding out  down river for extra time cause of the temps and levels ???

Great report rt:
Last week 2a looked insane on a Monday & Tues.
Your experience sounds as familiar as a crowded zone last week.
But the fish don't bite.
Some reason I heard today was Epic , from a senior board member , shoulder to shoulder. Man do I so wish I was there at o'dark thirty today. Thursday has me re thinking salmon 2112

Ah rt , we all know these fish don't bite, they don't eat and the trout are rainhead cookie cutters.
2 days ago it was about how much weight, you just said it was no point on the hook..
Foul I say, FOUL !! We in each our own minds are only salmon river snaggers.
I vote the only way to catch a lake run fish is by hand line only , no weight, artificial flies only with no points.

Hey Tuna-
 If was seein what I thought I was seein and believin what some were sayin those 'cookies' might be a tad larger this year.
  Time will tell.
    On the flip side the Hos were beautiful but NOT the biguns of a coupla years back.
 
Hey-- was helpin some guy by tailing his fish for him- took a good look and saw no hooks beside his and the tailing went well. Holding the fishie in a few inches of water -I never remove them from the water-thats up to him- the fish took a big flip and buried an black #1 in my ring finger on my other hand.
    Hadnt seen the hook in the dorsal fin- second flip removed said hookie from said fingie -a good thing cause I get all scardie cat bout that stuff when doin it on my own-result, blood all freakin day long all over all my nice gear.
   Careful folks its a war out there.
   Recalling  recent posts thats the second 'purple fishie' earned by Forum members this year.

If it was just fishin and catchin fish all the time it wouldnt be any fun- lol
 I got more laughs this year watching guys trying to net fish for their friend.  WHAT on Gods little green earth are some of those guys thinking. They commonly chase half played out fish all over the river up and down- back and forth- taking stabs at them with a freakin net big enough to hold a Buffalo. And they still miss and break off the fishies. Its the best hoot on the river.