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Post by mirvc17 on Jul 1, 2015 9:04:26 GMT -6
A few pictures from my trip. |
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Post by mirvc17 on Jul 1, 2015 9:05:10 GMT -6
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Post by mirvc17 on Jul 1, 2015 9:47:27 GMT -6
My buddy Rob and I wound up fishing the Russian River a couple of days for sockeye and also trout. Although it was difficult to fish for trout due to the sheer number of people and lack of fishing etiquette. Almost everyone assumes you're fishing for salmon and several times I had people come walking through slow water loaded with rainbows that I was fishing. Very annoying. Some dirty looks by me prevented others from walking through "my" water. The fall is just a better time to fish for them I suppose. Our plans to drift the Kenai went south after an issue with the boat and the need for at least one more guy and vehicle. We got 4 sockeyes, a few rainbows, and a dolly varden on the Russian. If you've never fished for salmon (red/sockeyes to be more specific) it's really not that exciting to be honest. It involves you rigging an absurd amount of weight at least 18" above your (unweighted) fly and flipping your rig over and over and over again until you get the fly into its mouth. They don't attack like other salmon can/do and only occasionally will they jump while fighting. It's like pulling in a 5 lb brick and the fast water makes it worse. Early-run sockeyes are 6 years old and ours were practically clones of one another, measuring 25" and 5-6 lbs. We fished Quartz Creek and wound up with more rainbows and dollys. One rainbow was quite nice (see above). It took a red pearl braid worm that was identical to flyandfin's pattern here. The dolly varden slammed a large white and olive dolly llama on the swing that I could barely cast with my 5 wt. More fish were caught on pink squirmy worms, egg patterns, small sculpzillas, and wolly buggers. Back at camp, a fire ban meant cooking steaks on an iron skillet in the camper, but Rob cooked some mean-ass steaks that were absolutely perfect. PBR, Sockeye Red IPA, and some Macallan 12 yr old scotch added to the winning ticket. The last day we went up to Willow Creek which was in fantastic shape. The water was gin clear, 52 degrees and running just under 300 CFS. We found multiple excellent pools and runs, a couple with some awesome back eddies that I've only read about in books. Unfortunately, our search for big rainbows came up empty handed with only one small 'bow being caught by Rob. Each hole though was loaded with arctic grayling. We caught somewhere around 50 grayling. They don't put up a huge fight though and their takes are soft. Size 16 rainbow warriors were the go-to fly. We didn't see a single person all day, nor any bears. All in all, a great trip. |
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Post by soonerlongbow on Jul 1, 2015 20:52:12 GMT -6
That sounds like an amazing trip! I'm so jealous. Maybe one day.
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