I went up to the club and arrived around 6:00 ready to jump right in. I was on the water in 5 minutes casting my Teeny 200 sinking line with a large #2 streamer with a trailing PT. The flows were around 300CFS. Access was very easy. I started casting at the head of the pool behind the boxcar. Unfortunately, I started picking up all sorts of junk off the bottom. Since I had rigged three rods as I indicated previously, I gave up on this quickly.
Fish were rising up and down the pool. My casting wasn’t up to par as the three month layoff and weak hand & arm made me look inapt. The wind was blowing toward the downstream so casting into the wind was not easy. I had a 15 foot 3X leader with about six feet of tippet. I had on a # 12 Tarantula & 16 BWO Gray. My luck the BWO’s on the water were somewhat greenish and size 18. I shook the branch of a willow and flies landed in the water so I could make sure what they were eating. I didn’t have a fly to match. I wasn’t having any luck getting them to hit the Gray BWO so I went up stream in the faster water. Bang Bang Bang. Three nice rainbows around 14” each. Great fighters with lots of aerials.
They hit both the 12 tarantula and the 16 Gray BWO. John came down and the fish stopped hitting. After John left I picked up the 11’ 5wt switch rod and started casting at the top of the run. Hooked up two nice fish but could not keep them on very long. The rod was more than I could handle with the weak hand and wrist. All in all it was a great hour and a half of fishing. The weather and water was perfect.
If you haven’t noticed PCWA generally lowers the flows Sunday afternoon because they don’t like to generate power on Sundays. They also don’t have enough water in Oxbow to keep the flows high and also have enough water the next day for the rafters. If you like fishing the lower flows, late Sunday afternoons is the time to go fishing.
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