I took a husband and wife out the other day and after a few hours of her absolutely wrecking fish and him putting up the big goose-egg, I said to him, "Ok, so here's what I'm seeing. After you cast, you're putting a big loop in the line, which is good, but then you have this habit of stripping line in cause little bumps on your indicator and you're not getting the drift that you need. Here, let me show you..."
I took the rod from the guy and cast it out over the riffle and threw a big mend out and started stripping it in, causing the same little pulsing action and WHAM! A 23 1/2 inch monster brown nailed it. Son-of-a-bitch! Fortunately, the last fish of the day that he landed was even bigger.
I looked at the flow on the Missouri today and it was at around 10,000 cfs. Wow, that's big water and with the snow cap the way it was it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I Canyon Ferry is down and I can't imagine Holter is that high either. Oh well, you got to deal.
What that means for fishing is once it settles down, it will just push the fish into different lanes. They will still eat and like last year, some of the best fishing days might just be in the high water. It will also bring another much needed flush to the river as the weeds have already started and there's plenty of dead crap from last year.
Keep 'em where they live...
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