Ok Guys,
Take this info for what you think it is worth. I was at the Wind and Drano last week with my Dad and posted a pretty dismal (no fish for a little over two days) personal report on another thread on this BB. What I didn't share and will now is the conversation with a couple of local fisherman as my Dad and I were packing up Thursday around noon to come home. The first gentleman (Ken) had two nice fish in the ice chest in the back of his car, we were talking in general and he asked me if I wanted to here his secret, so of course I said why not. He said that there were in his mind three distictive periods on the Wind. During the 0 dark thirty bite he runs nothing but cut plug herring for the first two hours of the morning and never wanders outside of the slot that is just off of the point were all of the bankers are, he is running a three way with a 24" dropper, comes across the shelf were it goes from 12'-14' and drops the herring into that 18'-20' hole over and over. During the middle of the day he runs mag warts like everyone else and then around 6:00 P.M. he goes back to running the herring. The other gentleman from Yakima comfirmed the periods of activities, 0 dark thirty then it slacks off until around noon and then it picks up and stays steady for the rest of the day. His thougts were time on the water will get you your fish, He runs mag warts and has success with plain orange, pink and the chrome with the orange stripe down the back. They both felt the same about the actual Wind River fish not being there yet. They had been taught by other local old timers that the Wind run doesn't really start to show up until around the 10th to the 15th of May. Anyway just thought I would share what I had learned and yes, I will be back to try again next week or the week after. Tight lines, Jeff