fished the silver fork for two days this past weekend. Water is high and a bit off color but theres enough fishable water to keep one busy. Fishing was pretty slow, Maybe a dozen or so very small guys all weekend, Nothin over 10 inches. Didn't get much fishing in on saturday as a big thunderstorm came through dumped rain for an hour and muddied the river. Too bad, Was looking forward to evening. Hoped thge river would clear overnight and it did, But the fishing really never turned on. Very few bugs out. Water pretty cold. Parachute adams worked as ussual. Funny this is the second year in a row on the same exact weekend that weather put a dampner on a trip to this same river.
Shaun, Remember this consistency for next year, right? Guess it supports the idea of having a stream side journal to review once in awhile. Never used one, myself. Were there still signs around the road area keeping people from dispersed camping? They had them up last year and were citing campers, probably for fire permits. Obviously the two campgrounds were open? Where did you camp?
Another week or more and I think we'll start to see some vast improvement on the flows of some water, though some main rivers will still see high water until toward the end of June. We have some possible weather coming in this week, too.
fished up there yesterday (sunday) fished a few small creeks, as well as silver, i was using a black crystal wooly bugger all day and it did the trick. got into some nice brookies at the begining of the day, a nice 14"er that i hooked and landed, and my buddies kid got his first brookie and first fish ona fly rod which was a 12" brookie. fished west carson with nothing, then fished the brookie creek ( saw a few brookies and cutts spawning, nice to see) then went to silver creek. met ac22 there. long time bro. silver creek was flowing nice, gin clear water, but same fishing effect slow, got a few takes on the upper section, and that was it, decided to head back down the road to get back into some brookies with alex following close behind. well didnt fish the upper portion that me and the lil boy did before, decided to fish the lower portion and it was a blast. brookies from 8-12" on almost everycast. alex got a bunch on elk hair caddis, but then we all switched to wooly buggers and it was a blast.
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I will never ever forget the rainjacket again like last year, Hypothermia was not far away last time. There were no signs prohibiting dispersed camping that i saw, Just red posts in the ground that prohibit you from driving very far off the main road. I just camped in a clearing along the road, Several others were doing the same. Brian, Its impossible to see brookies spawn now as they are always without exception fall spawners just liike browns. I refused to go subsurface on this trip so maybe I could have caught more fish.
well that fish sure looked like a brookie. definitly wasnt a brown or a rainbow. so who knows guess i found a new sub species of trout a browkbow trout. lol
james same spot. its flowing very nice right now. pm send
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