Post-flood Exploration

[Yallerhammer]

It's soggy, folks. We've had horrible floods here the last couple weeks. People have died and been evacuated. Still flood warnings out in neighboring counties. I sprouted vestigial gills.

With the waters finally receding, I decided to head into one of my favorite places to see how it fared through all the rain.

Lots of freshly-sawn fallen trees on the way in.

Samsquamch tried to steal my biscuit. I had to rough-talk him.



This feller had a nice paintbrush on him:



The main creek was very high. Un-wade-able. I broke out the 7-weight and a big streamer and hit it in a few spots from the bank. Had a couple very nice browns follow, and hooked a decent one about 13"-14", but couldn't seal the deal. Said hell with it, too much current , too much water. Need to hike back into smaller water.

Good weather for fungi:



Got to the "smaller" water. It was very high. This stream that is usually ankle-deep to knee-deep were ass-deep to chest-deep and moving rapidly in a series of standing waves. Un-cross-able in most spots.





Hit some slack spots behind big rocks and stuff that I could get to. First three fish got my slam taken care of. That doesn't happen very often:







That speck was 9" on the tape, not my pecker.

Still too much water to fish worth a damn.
Went on up to where it started splitting.


Finally got into some water that although high, was wade-able and fish-able.

Caught a few more of these:





Caught ten assloads of these:





And a considerable number of these:





I was having fun, but wading this high stuff and scrambling over cliffs and stuff to get around the stuff that was too deep to wade was whupping my ass. I was about 2 1/2 miles back in when it started thundering. I got the hell out of there.

Anyway, looks like the fish are still there. Looking forward to normal flows again at some point.

Fin.

[itieuglyflies]

Good stuff....... nothing wrong with that outing and a slam to make it sweeter. It will stop raining every other day sometime soon (we hope)

[BrookieHunter]

Damn, those are some good results after the monsoon we have had lately.

[Al]

 bd;0 bd;0 bd;0   Very well done. Reminds me of the adventurous spirit I had many years ago - I still have it but the body says "hell no" 

[Dougfish]

Sweet efforting! And fish.

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[Phil]

Oh my Yesss!  bd;0

[Yallerhammer]

I'm expecting a 12" speck out of this watershed sometime in the fairly near future.

[Phil]

I'm expecting a 12" speck out of this watershed sometime in the fairly near future.

<Perking up at this>

Edit -- BTW, I hate what happened to the lead singer of that band.

[Yallerhammer]

I'm expecting a 12" speck out of this watershed sometime in the fairly near future.

<Perking up at this>

Edit -- BTW, I hate what happened to the lead singer of that band.

Yep, that was rough. Last I saw, he was still in pretty rough shape.

[Dee-Vo]

Another great report.

I'll have to run a few creek names that I have on my list by you in a couple months when I venture back up your way in the fall. Same plan as last year, however, I hope the rain will let us fish normal water levels this go around. Maybe we can orchestrate a trip one of the days we're up there. Rock on.

[Yallerhammer]

Yeah, we gotta hook up and fling a fly.

[joe friday]

Good karma for the effort you put in...well rewarded. Dang good trip, I'd  say.