Russian River, AK

Mouth to Upstream 1/2 Mile

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Outing Information

Date: Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Start/End Time: 7:00pm to 11:30pm
Best Fishing Time: -
Rating: Good

Classification: Public
Water Temp: -
Water Clarity: Clear - 5'+ visibility
Water Level: -
User: Jason Hansen

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Fish Caught

Rainbow Trout

Caught	Avg Size	Pattern
1	22"	#8 Orange Glue Egg
1	19½"	#16 Black Disco Zebra Midgeling
1	16"	#8 Orange Glue Egg
3	19.17"

Total: 3 fish Top Patterns: Glue Egg (2) Disco Zebra Midgeling (1)

Weather

Skies	Morning	Afternoon	Evening
Sunny			X
Precipitation
None			X
Wind
None			X

Air Temp High/Low: 60.0°F / 50.0°F
Wind Direction: -
Weather Front: -
Barometer: -
Moon Phase: 88% Full (Waxing gibbous)

Other Patterns Tried

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Hatches

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Insect Seining

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Fishing Partners

Karl Sloth

Waypoints

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Tides

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Notes

A decent evening of fishing for Karl and myself as we continued to figure the river out. Upon arriving at the river I spotted a nice rainbow in a hold I had fished earlier in the day. One one of my first good drifts he took the disco zebra midgeling.

Later on Karl spotted a nice rainbow for me (he was rigged for salmon while I was rigged for nymphs for trout) in about 1' of water. I tried my disco zebra midgeling for many drifts without luck. I siwtched to an orange glue egg and had him on within a couple drifts - a nice 22" bow. We spent the rest of the night wading the stream trying to spot and cast to particular fish.

Later on I was fishing a deeper 2-3' deep run when a fresh-looking salmon moved into the hole. I had light tippet on at the time (3x or 4x) and was fishing a #8 purple egg-sucking leech. I thought about re-rigging to heavier tippet but thought the fish might leave the hole before I would be able to re-rig. Within 5 casts I got a great hookset on the fish and it went like a missile downstream, breaking off after 5 seconds or so. That was the only nice salmon I saw all evening.