Fun Fishing, One River Crossing, And A Few Fish On.

Today was another action packed day on the river. Derrick and I found a few feisty bull trout, and some dollies. The water level had come up since last weekend, and that made for some better fly water. I was using a weighted fly that I tied up with a cone head. That one worked the best for me. As we worked our way down the run, we thought about crossing the river and fishing, from the other side. It looked great. It was funny because we just looked at one another, and said there has to be fish there. We figured the best way to wade the tailout, and went for it. About half way across, it began to get deeper, and the current was pushing hard. At that point we were waist deep in water, commited to making it to the other side. As we neared the far bank, the current slackend off and we were safely on the other side. We fished the whole run all the way to the end as far as we could go. No hits, no pulls, no takers what so ever. We walked back up and crossed over to where we were before. I guess it just goes to show you, that looking at a certain piece of water from one side, doesn't mean that it will give you, a better fly drift from the other side. There is the possibility, and sometimes you get lucky. We worked our way through some other good water, and called it a day. What a day, a fun day.!!!!!

Finding New Water, and Lots of BIG BULL TROUT.!!!!

I decided to go looking for new places to fish, on the Squamish River. I walked down below the Ashlu bridge, looking for the elusive or so it seems at times, the BIG BULL TROUT, of the upper Squamish. The past few weekends I have not seen that much action. Finally I fished some great spots that held lots of dollies, and big bull trout. I had to walk a fair ways to find where the fish were. I guess that's the whole idea. But in the end it was worth all the effort. All the water that I fished would be great water for steelhead. Today was great I hooked fish in every spot that I fished, and it didn't seem to matter what colour combination I used they were very aggressive, and hit every fly I put through the run. It was great because I finally found those bull trout that I have been looking for. I managed to hook up on alot of big ones around the 4, to 7lb class and the usual dollies, of about 2, to 4lb, class. I lost track of how many I actually had on but I am estimating the count to be somewhere in the area of at least 25 on and a bit more than half of them I landed. It was great to feel that familiar tug on the line. It was an awesome day. And I hope that there are many more to come.....