Spring Run Off Blues
While I was sitting here today hoping that the weather will cool off some so that the Salmon and Little Salmon Rivers will at least return back into their banks and hopefully clean up a little so I can go try my luck salmon fishing. I realized that Saturday is the opener for many of the states lakes and rivers.
Now with the spring runoff in full swing river fishing will diffidently be a challenge for the next few weeks if they are even fishable at all. The high land lakes well they are still frozen and it is just as well because the snow is making them all but inaccessible anyways.
I’ve been thinking about trying my luck at some of the lower laying lakes around Cascade Reservoir, Horse Thief Reservoir, and even Little Lake have been some nice producers for me early in the year. I think that with the run off coming so late this year that the feeder steams into these reservoirs will make for some pretty good fishing this weekend.
I have always had good luck fishing these local reservoirs in the spring as the trout are heading up them to start there spawning cycle. My favorite way to fish for these trout this time of year is with my fly rod while it is hard sometimes to get them to take a dry fly pattern I have done very well using small egg patterns with a sinking line. I wish I paid more attention to their names but I expect that most fly fishermen have their special pattern anyways, anything that looks like and egg, ( I do mean fish egg) or even the leach patterns work well for me. I like to fish them right at the head of a deep pole just off the ripples and making sure that they are getting close to the bottom.
I made that special note about being fish egg just for an old time friend of mine but that’s a whole other story that I should write about sometime now that I think about it.
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