It's not the biggest

Well I finally got one.


To bad I got sick right after I caught it.   Bad stomach cramps, had to pull over a few times on the way home to let loose my sparse breakfast.   Feeling now.

congrats ,,,  too bad about the stomach cramps

Excellent, Clint. May not be a giant, but I'd be happy to hook it.  I'm sorry the cramps put a damper on the moment. You'll be replaying it in your head for awhile.  I hate to tell you, you'll still feel the same way on number 101. Not the cramps, the excitement.  Steel on the fly  flat out rock.
 
Charlie

Congrats---GOOD GRIEF- hope they dont all make ya sick

nice fish clint. they only clip salmon fins. trout fins may be missing from other things but not clipped from the US hatchery on the SR.

good job Clint...

you probably got cramps from fishing in cramped places,

next time take a long walk - your intestines will thank you...

keep the afternoon open for another vacation nap.

if I was up there, I would park at Trestle North lot, and take a nice walk downstream to the bend and fish that spot and below it.

easy walking, little to no chance of gettin wet.. IMO it is one of the nicest areas to fish.

p.s. - good call on the Big O, no need to be a darwin award winner for a fish..

good luck.

I always liked the choppy water lined with bushes above the big bend, the elm, and then the head of the next flat downstream (the snag), but last time up WB said that a lot of the elm and snag filled in in the last big storms. Mouth of Trout Creek is nice too, but it always seemed to fish better from the south side of the river, and that means a long hoof or crossing the flows.

I have found a method for avoiding Darwin Awards for longer, I think. My waders are ancient, and although they did not leak when I was up with HT 2 weeks ago, they did cause a lot of cramping in my feet. This week I went with my hip boots with korkers on them for traction, my ususal Finger Lakes trib footgear. While there is a lot of water that I might not be able to fish as effectively, if I am tempted to get too deep too fast, I get a not so subtle wake up call as the water rushes down the leg! And I could walk the next day without a walker! I won't be wading across the river in many spots even at 350-400 cfs, but at 60, the leg strength is not what it was at 35, so maybe it is better to not be wading across the river!

Get ready for a change in flow in The Sr. NWS says 90% chance of 0.9" overnight and more on Wednesday. My friend who lives in Pulaski says the upper reservoir was starting to fill up when he went by a couple of weeks ago, but if the area gets and inch or so in 24 hours, the tribs are going to kick the flow up a couple of notches. Maybe start seeing more fresh ones lower.

L13

Thanks for the ongoing reports, Clint. And to Lucky for the water info. I'm hoping.
 
Charlie