I don’t know what contributed to the rising water level from Yesterday, but it went up at least 2 inches. The creek was moving at a pretty good pace today, but the clarity was good enough to still spot a few fish here and there. I was able to get into 6 fish today, and landed two of them. One really good nice buck!  Here are the pics from today.

 

 

Good luck out there.

 

Flymstr;

     Today was a great day on the creek. A friend of mine, “Steve”, went down to the creek on Saturday, and saw no fish. The reports he got from the other fisherman, were bleak at best. Seems as though the fish I had in front of me on Friday, all went up river in a hurry.

     My experience on Eagle Creek over the last 20 some years, has been that these fish run in waves, until sometime in late March, when they seem to stack up more and hold all throughout the top mile of the creek. So with this thought, I had a feeling that today was going to bring in another group of fish. I happen to be correct!!. Also the crowds from Friday and Saturday, had been discouraged enough to either stay home, or go to another river.

     When I arrived at the creek today, there was only one other car in the lot. It was a familiar car to me. If you remember a fisherman I talked about 2 weeks ago, “Tom”, whom I had met at the river, and later got together for a day, and did some fishing together. I was happy to only see one other car, and to know that it only held one fisherman. I headed down with high hopes of a good day of fishing.

                                                                                          

The first hole held only one fish, that left in a hurry, but just 50 yards down stream, under a Cedar tree, lay 3 nice fish. I was able to liberate some limbs from this tree, and open a casting lane to these fish. First cast in got a bite, and the fight was on. I was standing on the root of a Cedar tree, with about 6 feet of water underneath me. I did not think about what I was going to do if I hooked up under this tree. So what I did, was use the pressure from the fish to hold myself up and balance along the root until I could jump off and get back on the bank. It worked, and I landed the first one. I went back to the root, and 3 casts later, again I was hooked up, and I used the same system to get across the root and to the bank. I also landed this fish. “Then there was one!!”.  It took about twenty casts to this fish, and it was on again, but this fish got me. When I tried to use the pressure to balance with, this fish turned around on me and almost through me back into the water. I got luck, and was just able to keep my balance, but the fish was able get slack, and he was gone. I went down to a hole called the “Log Hole”, where I got into 2 and landed 1 nice fish.

    

Moving on down the creek, I encountered several fish that I was able to get into. I landed another 2 fish, and released them. I came upon Tom, standing in one of my favorite spots on the creek. I was glad to see Tom had purchased a Fly Rod, and seemed to be pleased with it. He told me that he had hooked up on Wednesday, but quickly lost the fish. I asked how he was doing today, and he had landed a native fish,(That I consequently hooked and landed also 20 minutes later). I was able to spot a couple of fish laying in the tail out of the hole he was fishing, and he went to work on them. I walked down about 30 feet to this rock wall that I really like to fish. I was hooked up in just a couple casts, and I landed this nice little male. I was able hook and land another fish just minutes after the first one, it was the Native Tom landed before. Then came the “YeeHaaww” from Tom, and he was hooked up with a nice fish. It was a great fight, almost got rapped on rocks, but Tom controlled the fish beautifully, and landed it like a pro. It was great to see him get em’ on the Fly Rod! After this, I hooked with 3 more fish and landed 2 of them. So it was a great day to be Fishing!!! 

 

Hey Donny!!! Where you at brother!??? Heard nothing in a while. Thought you were coming down. Let me know!! Also Pete Durney's friends,,, where you guys at??

 

Good luck out there!!

Flymstr;

Well I took a couple of days to write about Friday. I lost so many fish I stayed home on Saturday to cool off. I am not going to get into exactly how many I hooked, not only to keep people from thinking I am lying, but also not to make those of you that were out on Friday feel bad if you had a tough day. I will say, it was over “20”, (Well over 20). It was a great day for hook ups, but I was only able to land 1 fish the entire day. The day started out with two fish hooked in the first couple minutes, then I think it was a fish on just about every ten minutes, until the last hour, when I got into several fish, in just about the same amount of casts. The water was a perfect color, and the fish were on the attack. Several holes that Matt and I stopped to fish, took just one cast a piece to hook fish. It seemed that if I saw a fish I was able to get a strike in less than three casts. Some of these fish actually traveled more than ten feet to hit the fly. It was great fishing, but the landing sucked.

Good luck out there.

Flymstr;

Today was suppose to be me and another fisherman, that I met last year, during the trout opener at Lake Lenice. Seems as though Todd came own with the flu, so I went at it solo, not even my dog went today. Indy stayed home due to the rain. She got real wet and cold the day before, so she refused to get out of bed this morning. I was expecting the river to be high and muddy, but instead it was still high, but had cleared up real nice. I did not see allot of fish moving through the creek though. I was positioned in an area that had a very good view of anything moving up stream. I saw only a few fish move through, a total of five to be exact. These five fish moved up and sat in front of me the entire morning, so the fish are holding up in this high water, which means as soon as it starts to drop, they will haul fin upstream. I was able to get into four fish and land two of them, before the water started to rise even more. There were two fish today that drove me crazy. These two fish positioned themselves under some branches that were hanging down into the water. Just the tips of the braches were in the water, but the fish were directly underneath them. I tried for hours to get these fish, and all I did was lose 8 flies on that dang tree. This is the first time I can remember, that I was not able to get fish that I could see. If the water was just an inch lower I could have drifted under and into those fish, but it was not to be. Here is the pics from today.

 

Good luck out there!

Flymstr;

Well the water went way up today. Maybe 9 inches, and turned a chocolate brown. I can’t believe this little bit of rain could cause this to happen, but it did. I was able to get into four fish today, before the water went brown, but after that it was over. Here are the pics from today, also I am a gluten for punishment, so I will go again tomorrow in hopes that the water will clear a bit tonight.

 

Good luck out there.

Flymstr;

It’s about time!! Today the water level was on the rise, and the fish were on the move. I saw more fish in the first hour today, than I have in total the entire year. I was able to get into about 20 or more fish today, and landed a meager 7 fish, but what a day I had. I saw fish from the first minute to the last today, I am very excited about the next two weeks. The rain is suppose to hit good tonight, so I am hoping they are wrong and the rain will just hit in small spurts throughout the next week. The creek came up about 3 inches today while I was fishing, but stayed relatively clear. The rain has stopped for now, and I am thinking I have one more good day if the rain does come, before it may blow out. Here are the pics from today.

Good lick out there!!

Flymstr;

Today I was just to tired to go fishing, but I will be back at it tomorrow.

Ryan Hatfield if you are reading, please send me another message. I can’t get an email out to you with the address you gave me. Call me so we can set up a time to go. Also Donny I need to know if you still want to come out. And Mark let me know when you are going to be here. Also I have talked to another gentle that is friends with Pete Durney, and I need to know if you are going to want to fish still. I have lost all your numbers and I need to know when you are all going to be here, or if you are coming or not.

Thanks and let me know.

Flymstr;

Aaron;

 

Another day on the creek has produced some real nice fish. I was able to get into 7 fish today, and it was fast and furious right out of the gate. I got into my first fish within just a few minutes, but he came unbuttoned. I got into another one fairly quickly, and it too came undone. Not discouraged, the third one came to the bank. I lost the next one, but was able land the two that came after that one. I then sat back to help a friend of mine that I met there today. I had also run into a fisherman ("Tom") at the creek two days ago. He was having a hard time believing me when I told him the amount of fish I was producing. So I gave Tom my web site address and had him get ahold of me if he wanted to go through the creek with me, and hopefully I could give him a few hints on what I was doing different. Tom got ahold of me the next day, and I met with him also this morning. I believe after the first ten minutes of the morning, Tom was a believer. I hope through out the day I was able to help a little bit. My buddy "Doug", that you have seen before with the big king from the coast was giving his best shot. He had a tough start, but after spotting a fish for him in a little white water pocket, Doug was hooked up, and landed a nice 7 pound buck, which I forgot to get a picture of. The fish that Doug got into was laying in about 2 feet of fast running water. This fish was moving around in the feeding lanes and being very active. At first the fish was moving around to much to get a fly to it. When I saw that it moved into a little feeding lane at the top of the run I knew Doug was going to hook up. I think it was the third cast after the fish settled, when Doug reared back and said "There he is", and the fight was on. It was a good fight, but we won in the end.. I will try to go again tomorrow, but no promises. I am getting beat up real bad by these fish everyday. I will fish until I cant walk or cast, then I will have my chiropractor fix me up, and I fish some more. Expect more updates everyday that I can get up and walk.

   

Good luck out there.

Flymstr;

Well the fishing on the creek today was a bit slower than it has been, but I was still able to bring a couple to the camera. The first part of the morning was very disappointing, to both me and my fishing partner. After the first hour of seeing no fish, we kept walking down stream, peering into all the small white water pockets along the way. Finally we came across two fish laying behind a rock in some fairly stiff water. It took a good twenty minutes just to figure out how to get our flies down into the seam these fish were resting in. I hooked up the first one after loading my leader down with split shot, and essentially slowing the drift down to a very slow presentation. It worked like a charm. I was hooked up, but not for too long, before the hooked returned with no fish on the end. We then worked the second fish for close to an hour. Finally Matt gave up and headed on down stream, I was not going to let this fish get the best of me, so I stayed and hammered this fish for another 20 minutes. My perseverance paid off in a big way. I hooked up and this fish tore me up. I was able to get this nice little 8 pound fish to the bank. After getting a pic, I took off to find out what Matt may have found downstream. When I did find him, he was on top of three fish at the head of a good size hole. The fish were held up against a wall of rock with a nice riffle over the top. Matt fished for some time for these fish, but there were no takers for him. While Matt was fishing the head of the hole, I looked up a bit further into the faster water, and was able to spot a nice big male sitting in the tail end of this little pocket. It was not to long before I was hooked up again, and this was a nice size male. After landing this fish, I sat back and waited for Matt to pull one out. Matt just couldn’t get the fish to cooperate with him today, so after he got hung up and lost his gear on the bottom, I stepped up to give it another shot. Again it was not long before I was on. This fish was a real nice chrome female with a good fight in her. I landed the fish, and told Matt that there was at least one more fish in the slot and that he should get in there and get em’. He stepped up and was soon hung on the bottom again, (Some days are just like that, no matter what you do, nothing goes right). He was not able to retrieve his gear, and so he was in the pits again, and it was my turn. I got up and took about 3 casts when my tip stopped, I set the hook and it was on again. I landed the fish, took the picture, released the fish, and called it a day. Here are the pic’s from today, should have more coming on a daily basis.

Good Luck out there,

Flymstr;