Owyhee River, OR

Pump House Riffles; Mini cliff hole and below

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Outing Information

Date: Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Start/End Time: 10:30am to 4:30pm
Best Fishing Time: -
Rating: Good

Classification: Public
Water Temp: -
Water Clarity: Stained - 1' to 3' visibility
Water Level: 240cfs
User: Jason Hansen

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Fish Caught

Brown Trout

Caught	Avg Size	Pattern
1	21"	#12 Olive-Brown California Leech
4	17"	#12 Olive-Brown California Leech
2	18"	#20 Pheasant Tail
1	18"	#16 Black Zebra Midge
8	17.88"

Total: 8 fish Top Patterns: California Leech (5) Pheasant Tail (2) Zebra Midge (1)

Weather

Skies	Morning	Afternoon
Sunny	X	X
Precipitation
None	X	X
Wind
Very Light - <5 knots	X	X
Light - 5 to 10 knots	X	X

Air Temp High/Low: 75.0°F / 55.0°F
Wind Direction: -
Weather Front: -
Barometer: -
Moon Phase: 41% Full (Waxing crescent)

Other Patterns Tried

#12 Red San Juan Worm
#16 Red Disco Zebra Midgeling

Hatches

#14 Dark Speckle-Wing Quill Ephemeroptera Callibaetis
#12 Skwala Plecoptera Skwala
#20 Midge Diptera

Insect Seining

#8 Dark Green Cranefly Diptera
#16-#22 Black; Olive-Gray ? Unidentified Mayfly Ephemeroptera unknown

Fishing Partners

Karl Sloth
Zak Stroud

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Tides

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Notes

What a beautiful day outside. The river flows came up to 240 cfs from 30 cfs on Wednesday and Thursday. We drove around quite a bit mid-afternoon and found no consistently rising fish. Pretty slow. I never saw any fish feeding underwater, either. In multiple holes, I saw several skwalas float by, but never heard or saw a fish rise to them. The higher flows have turned the surface action off temporarily.

I nymphed all day and did decent. I caught 8 and had another 8 or so on. Most on the olive brown california leech. A few on small pheasant tail. And only one on the zebra midge, despite there being a decent midge hatch in the late morning up at the Pump House Hole.

I tried to stalk a large 10lb+ carp in the shallows while Karl and Zak spotted from the road. It swam off well before I could get close enough to cast to it.