So on account of my good luck this week on the sky, my father came up from Olympia to fish it with me today. Of course he doesn't like to get up early so we didn't make it to the water until 11 or 12, but the fish do bite later in the day sometimes.

Started at Reiter, it was LOW. I've never fished it when it was this low and clear. It was low crystal clear and busy, but WINDY. The wind was obnoxious. If it caught your line in the slightest, it would pull your gear up off the bottom, basically ruining everything. I saw a couple fish flash, but they probably got spooked by all the trouble we were having keeping the gear down. I saw one fish brought out from early in the morning. But that's all I saw from reiter. It looked like the highway 2 side was doing better, and looked more apealing to fish than the hatchery side, but we left down to the cable hole, and fished all of two minutes and decided to leave. The wind was unstoppable. There were qwhitecaps on the water. It was dissapointing.

Anyways, got some lunch in gold bar and then tried the high bridge launch area. My father was downstream when I hooked up on a jig, it was a biggun, ran me up and down the hole and snapped me off on some sort of stick. I switched to my other pole and started casting a silver spoon. Got a real good follow on that, it was going to take it, swam from the depths to right in from of me getting in front of the spoon and then my spoon hit a rock and stopped flashing and he swam off. Well, if you catch a 12 plus pounder with a jig in it's mouth, tell him hi for me!

We stopped there and fished the last hour of daylight at the Wallace at the mouth. Right as the sun started to set fish started splashing up the river. Nice bright steel swam right by us, we tried as best we could, but couldn't keep gear in the water long enough and it was too dark and didn't have headlamps or glow balls, but the fish were there. Meh, we're gonna spend the weekend on the OP rivers next week anyways, too bad I didn't get my dad into a fish though, it was hard today. But although the fish are in the sky, until we see some rain be prepared for LOW water presentations and spooky fish, but they are there and trickling in. It's just super difficult to get 'em in the mood for a meal. I'd say your best bet is to fish hard and fast down the whole river, because they're lock jaw right now.

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