You Don't Know Unless You Go

Conventional wisdom in fishing is, rivers "on the rise" dont fish well. Recent near record warm temps  causing snow melt then, thunderstorms the night before had made the river had made the river increase by %25.

Rives rising.................

my friend Brendan and I were planning to go and check out the salmon fly hatch, and both being junkies we look at the USGS river flow site like 20 times a day. and on the morning in question the hydrograph was going up fast!

would it be muddy?

think the bugs will still be out?

fish don't eat well on the rise do they?

should we still go?

high.................. but clearish

salmon  fly in lower right

these questions and many more were shot across cyber space as texts.................

Golden stone!

but the last one was the most important one: "you don't know until you go"

and true words were never spoken.

look at the pics and judge for yourself.

nice rainbow

B's brown one of many!