285 for three hours?

Cold night tomorrow too. Chance of snow. Can you say bring on the steel!!!!

My friend again saw the netting up at Orwell brook yesterday for at least 6 hours. I have seen it up twice last week.   Unless they are stocking, they may be trying to net females there.  That would really explain why on last Wednesday we  had a good day, but only caught  one female.

Makes you wonder what would work then???? It seems as if males havent had any problem making it up... makes one wonder if there is some kind of biological indifference in hatchery males vs. Hatchery females juvenille survival rate.... it seems as if plenty of wild females made it and are spawning or already spawned.... tons of hatchery males are stacked in the hatchery???? What gives??? Id love to know the answer myself...and yes, once you stop learning there is no point to it ;)

     Last week driving by TB and Orwell I find it hard to believe a fish could make it upo that little of water, but the things we do for the nookie.

you assume they were snagging them
if it was that low they may have just been netting them :)

King of the sea, Poseidon, Neptune, whatever you want to call the dude, sure as hell he could fish and he used a frickin' pitchfork.  A trib tickler. When I was a  kid, we use to herd suckers up to a small dam and  collect them  with  forks for garden  fertilizer.   Maybe I should sell all those fancy fly sticks I've collected and be a real fisherman.
I'm with Lucky on closing the brooks  when it's this low and easy.
 
Charlie
 
 
 

Trout brook should be closed period because IMHO you cannot fairly fish there due width and depth  unless there has been ALOT of rain.  I have not walked it in years , but I doubt under fairly normal  water circumstances there is any spot over thigh deep.   I fish the other tribs alot.  That said  I would LOVE to see Orwell closed down until Nov. 1.   There are alot of deeper  holes (some around 6 feet deep even last weekend) and TONS more brush for the fish to hide there. 

Well now it is until 11:58  tonight so I guess they are giving a good push after all the recent rain.  I just  checked the gauge and it is running at 417 so must be some good run off too!!!

Yea, Bob, but the 4 hour pulse has turned into a 16 hour push.  Should bring alot of fish (and pressure)  from down low and give the steel aplace to hide.

maybe i am reading it wrong but it looks to me like it pulsed briefly and has dropped ever since and it is run off keeping the flow higher not a release.
it says the same thing should happen again tonight.
heard they were predicting another 1/4 in rain today-night which should keep some extra cfs in the river again tomorrow.
or am i reading the pineville gauge wrong.

i've been fighting the cold from hel since i came home last tues.

They raised it to 285 yesterday at 8:00 I think and it will stay at 285 until at least sunday midnight according to the  USFG site.  The first release was only supposed to be 3 hours.  It stopped raining here yesterday afternoon.  Could have been runoff or maybe the bumped it up higher for an hour to clean stuff out and get stuff moving.  With the rain tonight it be 4 to 500 tomorrow.  We will see.

Looks like the hill is getting hit now and it's getting Awful dark and windy...........

F work, I can't take it. Getting too dam ideal for me. I'll have to try and sneak in a  day next weekend, crowds or not. Tying steel flies every night is making it worse.  Maybe you guys will develop a tolerance for these colds and get your dose over with early.  I can't stop thinking about those dam steelhead!  Bring on the weather!
 
Charlie

Sounds good, Clint. I'm doing similar- stones 8-12. About finished with the egg/spawn  collection for the year.  That means I'll run out of blue about March, on a day when they're all running big and that's all they want. It's not funny, because it's true.  Well , it is funny if you're fishing with me and you have some blue. Happened last year and still haunts me.  HT was fishing above me and killing them, he lands a few beauties and feels sorry for me. He's said blue to me so many times he's turning it.  He lets me take his place. I tie on my last blue egg and drift it into a  little depression behind a boulder in the middle of a good seam. Sure as ****, first drift line stops and I raise the rod just enough. The fish raises up off the bottom and takes off across river. Bright Chrome and over 3 feet.  The guys across the river scream like little girls, or was that my echo?, anyway, I overtighten my **** and my line hand simultaneously  and it's all over.  The guys across the river  are all  "Man,  that was a big fish", making me feel so much better.
I better tie more blue.