Counting On Your Fishing Stories

[fishinglibin]

Blew out my knee a few weeks ago in Ontario, and coming back slow. Re aggrivated it, so even longer come back. River walking would put me through the roof. So I get some satisfaction from the update posts on the Bow and elsewhere. Keep them coming. I am jealous, but always interested.

[trailhead]

You are not missing much right now. Floods really have changed the river. I have gone out twice in the last week, primarily to check out what's changed which turns out is a lot, managed one small rainbow on a prince and had a LDR on the worm. The major holes that I used to hit are gone, the old empty runs seem to still be there. A big run that was a go to for me has with a channel running behind it, so it is actually an island now. I think that it will be two years before the river is back to what it was BF. The fish are still there it is just a matter of finding them, and they will be transient until it all settles down. I found some really strange things, there is a ~100 yard long stretch where the river deposited a bunch of tomato bedding plants, they all produced. At the end of the tomatoes there is a beautiful sunflower, when I first saw it I thought it was an artificial. I hope that is all I find, will be walking all the old stretches to see what is. I will post as things progress.

[fishinglibin]

Before the knee problem I was ot a few times and the changes are amazing, as mentioned in old threads. When I was out, it was slowish for me, but you still see the odd post where they are having hot days. Hope to try a lake in the next week or two, then the river if the bod is up to it.

[WyomingGeorge]

I haven't made it out since the flood myself, but one of my close fishing buddies, who reports accurately and does not exaggerate, said the bankside hopper-dropper fishing in mid-September was stellar, and on one outing he landed 6 rainbows over 20" plus 10 other nice fish. He did say that big and little fish seem to have switched places, catching numerous small fish in what used to be big-fish lies.

 

Take heart, gentlemen!

 

I'll do my best to get out before the end of October and will file my usual long report.

[Guest Sneaky]

fished okay yesterday. Small nymphs and jimmy legs let us put 15 fish to the boat. nothing real big, bunch of 10-14" browns, a pile of 14-18" rainbows. But it was consistent. So that was nice. First float for me below 17th ave, since the flood.

[darrinhurst]

I haven't fished since an epic trip to BC over a month ago that got me into my first real bully of about 32". Other than that, I haven't fished at all. Been too busy landscaping the yard before the snow flies.