Steelhead 2012

Well after all the waiting that I have been doing, I finally got a chance to get out and do some fishing. Claude and I made our annual trip to the upper salmon river in Stanley Id and landed a few steelhead (April 10th - 14th). If you are familiar with the the Yankee Fork area, we were fishing under the over hanging tree in between the cables. I want to say that the water flow the first day was close to 950cfs climbing up around 1300cfs  the last day we were there (five days). The Yankee Fork water had a glacier tint to it but the Salmon river was fairly clear so it was producing some good fishing. The air temp was about 24 degrees when we started in the morning but warmed up to around 40 degrees throughout the day. The Salmon river was fairly clear as far down as we were fishing so it produced some fish. Here are a couple of fish that we landed.

The biggest of the trip

Still Waiting

The ice is starting to break but not quite enough to fish. So I am still on the bench! This is a size 4 2XH 3XL egg sucking leach. I am hoping that the next post will have a pic of a fish in it. Although steel head season is just around the corner, getting stoked for that!!! I'll get some great pics once again do all to see!

Till next time, tight lines everybody!

Back at the Bench

Prince Nymph Size 12

As we get into the winter months, I have started to replenish my fly boxes. I thought that I would start out with this Prince Nymph size 12-18. I have also been working on some Brassie and Copper Johns in similar sizes.  I am still hoping to get out on the water before everything is froze solid but with the weather conditions being as bad as it is, I think that chance is dwindling away. Hope everyone else is getting back to the bench and tying up some sweet flies for next season.

Tight lines everybody!