I've got an arsenal of cerise, white and black x-cut bunny jigs tied on heads from First Cast (nickle) and Rainbow Jig heads (pink, pearl, and purple powder heads)...in addition my stockpile of Berkley 4-inch bubble gum worm jigs (complete with Schlappen collars) is getting satisfactory.

Tons of cerise bunny leeches in weighted and non-weighted. Glue-gun eggs and clusters are ready to roll. Just need the good water.

What is everyone else doing to stay sane?

[ 12-04-2001: Message edited by: Chuckn'Duck ]

I'd say forget about your jigs and bunny leeches, consider yourself a lucky man, and drift fish off to sleep. Some genius long ago said "what goes up must come down". In your case, I figure that applies to more than the river this fine morning.

Still fishin my options just get more limited.

Tight lines

Kevin

SRBC

Take solace in the fact that a blown river cannot be gillnetted as effectively as a river at lower flow levels. Remember last season when the rivers were basically blocked for days at a time. At least when flows return to normal there will be fish in the rivers. If it was another low water year, the fish wouldn't make it past the nets in some systems.

I've been fishin!! my little "GO TO" river has 2ft vis.

You could run over and visit JEB I he said his river is good color and plumb full of fish!!!

I been tying jigs like a mad man, respooling reels with new line, tying drift rigs, patching waders, getting egg stains out of my vest, sorting my vest pockets, getting all the swivels, corkies and pieces of lead that somehow got randomly tossed in any-which (new term) pocket and basically driving my wife and kids crazy.

The last two weekends, I almost rolled over and went back to sleep, but I'm glad I didn't. I spend almost all of my time on the Kalama and I've never noticed the high, dirty water put the fish down. You just have to find the areas of soft water created by the changing conditions. The fish get right up against the banks in the soft water and I've had luck with 1/4 oz. jigs in these conditions, as well as with shrimp and with eggs.

Last weekend, the water was as high and as dirty as I've ever fished and I did reasonably well. At the end of the day, I was dinking around in a very cramped area of soft water. I was just flipping eggs under a float 3 to 5 feet from the bank. After about 15 minutes, I noticed a bright winter fish right at my feet, not a foot from shore and in not more than a foot of water. It would only become visable as every once in a while it would drift up near the surface and turn. When it did this, you could see it was a two-toner. The only problem was, it was too shallow to fish to. I'm sure I passed over more fish like that that were even closer to the bank than I was fishing when I thought I was fishing effectively close to the bank.

I don't know if the fish behave like this where you are, but if high water is all you have, you might try just fishing the quiet edges.