Wednesday, March 20, 2024

03.20.24 Okay, let's put fishing off for a bit...


     I've been fishing everyday, at some part of the day, and just don't feel it necessary to post. There's nothing going on yet for me. And just when things were starting to look promising I think Mother Nature is going to go and mess things up. We have a storm, well two of them, brewing and they might combine and hit us this weekend. For just about the last week the winds have sucked coming out of the 


north or west. Today we'll see winds up around 30 mph at their gustiest gusts. Water temps near me have dropped and will continue to do so as this weather continues. The thing that drives me nuts, and


maybe the fish as well, are these all-or-none inconsistent spring weather conditions. Back in the day we'd still have snow on the ground in the mountains and maybe even some ice dams on the rivers. All of that melt would make for a nice steady flow of cool and clean water. Just a week ago on March 13 we were just coming down from 60,000 cfs and today will most likely hit below 15,000. If history repeats 


 itself by Monday we'll have had 6 inches of rain, the river will be back up to over 50,000, and the water  temps will be in the low 40's. That has tone confusing for the migrating fish. I know it sucks for fly fishermen.