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Originally Posted by Graystoke
Megatron with the fish porn!
Looking like a great outing. Has the drought made it easier to target runs, holes and hides?
Or is water level normal?
I’ve been stuck near my home waters mostly fly roding for Smallies. With the low water they have been holing up and behaving very predictable.
Present fly, look for the take, set, fish on.
I can get on the water in 10 minutes for Smallmouth compared to driving 45 for trout.
And IMO a 19” Smallie fights more and goes airborne more then any 19” Trout.
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Water's low everywhere out West.
We got lucky, I think, because the Gunn was running enough water t allow fish to still take cover beneath the undercuts, and they must've been pretty hungry, because there wasn't much of a salmonfly hatch this year, and the fish were skinnier than usual. So they were shallow and aggressive.
But our last day they dropped the flows again, and you could tell the fish were beginning to leave the banks/shallows. My guess is that by now most of the fish are heading for the deepest pools they can find.