June 2 Fishing Report

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Ryan and I hit the lake after we closed shop at 6 last evening. Boated to the dam and drifted all the way to Fall Creek. They were running 2 units but dropped to one about the time we got up there. Dropping water is usually the kiss of death but it wasn’t real difficult to catch fish. Wasn’t one after the other though.

 

I switched color jigs most of the way to Lookout while Ryan stayed with white the whole evening. He kicked my butt too but I caught the biggest! White was the best but like I said we had quite a few dry spells which I’m not use to. That’s why I kept changing but they didn’t want much on the dark side.

The first few nice rainbows I had to take pics of. Ryan, like I said, was nailing them down to Big Hole. Then it dried up till we got almost down to Lookout Island.

This one was my big rainbow of the evening. 20 inches on the nose. White Jig.

Ryan caught this one right after I caught mine. We didn’t measure but I’m sure it pushed 19 inches and it might have been heavier than mine.

This last one I caught at Short Creek – just wanted to show there’s a bunch of nice rainbows below Fall Creek. This one was a good 17 inches.

Today, the water was off for the first time in weeks and it was off all morning. Then they turned 2 units on this afternoon and it looks like they’ve dropped it down to one unit this evening. This is a great pattern for all situations – fly fishing, spin fishing and bait fishing. Best of all worlds.

Bill Babler, our fishing guide, wrote this report today.

No generation, and fishing completely off the charts. Group of 3 from Lilleys’ this AM and to say it was wonderful would be an understatement. Going to guess probably close to 70 fish to the boat with the majority over 14 inches. Just flat beautiful colored up toads. Vibrant Ruby red gill plates contrasted with bright silver sides to make it a no brainer to know you were on to a spectactular taneycomo rainbow.

Flat water no generation, and this is what a natural ginger or sculpin green 1/256th. oz micro jig is made for. We were fishing them from Fall Creek to the Short Creek Ramp. Setup was a 7ft. White River Outfitters Rod with 6 pound Maxi, to a carrot float. Tippet was 2 pound Vanish F.carbon with the little jig hanging in their face at about 7 ft. deep.

Slight shocks on the indicator kept the interest up. Bite was firm and they hung onto it. Usually on newbies, we miss more than we catch. Not this morning, as they just swarmed the bait. Not uncommon to see 5 following in the one you had on a leash. I will say, we didn’t catch a fish under 11 inches. REally magnificent.