OK, more detail. Just plain egg clusters, some with a small corky, were getting the strikes both drifted or floatfished (as usual on that fishery). And it was Nick Amato and 'Fly getting the fish on with Nick limiting out on a pair of mid-teeners. They both lost other bigger ones almost impossible to stop in that fast gradient river with the water up. This turned out to be a disasterous hike for me with my bad left ankle. I did some egg fishing too, mostly sitting down on rocks and didn't do any good - not because of sitting or the eggs (using the same eggs the same way), it just wasn't my day and couldn't get a bobber down or driftfish take when I used them. They both stayed with the eggs for our half day fishing, Nick staying in the first good hole we came to and 'Fly taking a very long hike up to another good hole to fish. I tried to hike up with 'Fly but couldn't make it and wound up doing most of my fishing in pockets in rapids by myself. I spent quite a bit of my time on outcroppings using both bright red w/ black tiger stripped Warts and chrome/chartruse Warts, in both reg. & Mag sizes with scent, fished right on the seam edges mostly, but also casted and swung thru decent water. I still can't believe the springers moving thru those seams weren't smacking the Warts. They normally will in those conditions and even more so when the water drops and clears. I guess the only good thing I got out of fishing apart is that you can now see I could've said I hooked fish while by myself for a long while, but won't do that - same with 'Fly as he reported no hookups in the upper hole (I did see a couple fish hooked by my friends, but Nick's landed fish did the talking for him). If I ever attempt sections of that river again I will park myself down and fish only the closest good hole - mostly with good eggs. Or maybe I'll kamikazi cataraft it eek . So there is your details except for the section of river, which I told the guys I wouldn't post. Not a big deal, there will be fish crawling all up and down the whole river soon enough. People too!

RT

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