Highwood River Sept 26th

[esleech]

Hit the wood today. Fished at one of the main access points along the highway, expecting to see few fish and even more garbage. Well, I saw lots of fish, and a s**t load of trash. Anyways, I caught a nice bow right off the bat on a little green humpy, and a few more cutbows on a little black copper john. The second cutbow I hooked, got nailed by a BIG bully that would not let go. I had to "guitar string" the flyline to make him move. He spit out the trout and ghosted back to his lair. Suprisingly the cutbow swam off no worse for wear!? That was it for fish, save for a 20" + cutty I hooked in some fast water on a stimmy, and there was no way to stop that freight train in the current he was in. I know, the one that got away right?

[EdB]

sure looks nice there leech. Great pics.

[Lawrence]

Good on ya dude for carrying some of that trash out with ya! Nice report too

[DougC]

Nice report. I was out there yesterday and could not believe the amount of garbage. For a place thats not all that easy to get into it sure is full of trash. Lots of the usual beer cans, bags, poaching paraphernalia, etc, but also some pretty weird stuff as well. Strangest find was a doll that was wedged between a couple rocks. It was kind of spooky looking up and seeing a pair of big blue eyes staring back at me until I realized what it was. Then a bit farther downstream there was a stuffed teddy bear on the bank. Where does all this crap come from?

 

As for the fishing, I only headed down with my 6wt and a couple boxes of streamers. I missed one bull and nothing else was interested in the big flies I was tossing. Luckily I found a CDC caddis and a hopper in one of my pockets and I managed a few decent cutts but they were few and far between. I walked about 3km and only found three pools with active fish.

[Guest bigbadbrent]

that's a great run hey? SO many pockets, but biggg pockets..

 

Not be a jerk, but the garbage comes from the reserve..only thing upstream really

[fisher26]

Great job getting that garbage I sometimes fish that area too (I think so at least) and always manage a Safeway bag full... Wish I could of made it to the Bow river clean up but it just didn’t work. O well next time, I almost always pick up trash anyway.

 

Sounds like another nice day on the Wood!

[esleech]

Not be a jerk, but the garbage comes from the reserve..only thing upstream really

Well...some comes from there, but how about the tapered leaders, fishing line, and peoples old socks....I would guess that more people fish there from outside the reserve than residents of the reserve...in essence, fishermen are to blame too, not just the locals. And yes Brent, that is a great run through there. I guessed you probably had fished that area before.

[Guest bigbadbrent]

i meant the teddy bears and such