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Started out at the hatchery in the early AM, one of the first to get there. The rack was out, and apparently that means you can fish it. Or so the guys that were snagging fish in front of the fish ladder said. They limited out on nicce coho in about 45 minutes and then left.
I dunno, Last time I was there there was a sign. I looked in the regs and it says 200 feet upstream of the water intake is the regs. But they took the sign down. Meh, I didn't fish it, and they'd snagged them all by the time I got there.
The water was quite high when I got there. Decent visibility. There were tons of Jacks, which were great fun. I didn't keep any on account of I didn't want to use my limit on two little fish. I hooked a nice size silver, I guess about ten pounds, fairly bright. Lots of red fish rolling around too. I was walking to the bank and the fish rolled over the my line when I was trying to edge to somewhere I could bank 'im, and the hook came out his mouth and stuck in his dorsal fin. On account of I didn't want a ticket I let him be free again to spread the species. I've got a freezer full of fish.
Had a few bumps, but I took a break for lunch and to take some photos up on the mountain. Was gonna hike up into Lake Isabel but the parking spot says that it's closed? Does anybody know anything about that? By the time I got back to the river it was about three feet lower and everybody had frightened the fish off into lock-jaw land. Not even the Jacks were biting. Fished for another hour and then called it quits. The river will most likely be back to normal tommorow, it rises and falls REALLY fast, it was really neat.
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