Upper Clark Fork River, MT

Warm Springs

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Outing Information

Date: Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Start/End Time: 1:30 to 8:00
Best Fishing Time: -
Rating: Good

Classification: Public
Water Temp: -
Water Clarity: -
Water Level: -
User: Troy Blandford

Pictures

Fish Caught

Brown Trout

Caught	Avg Size	Pattern
2	15"	#14 Tan Deep Sparkle Pupa
5	16"	#16 Gray Scud
2	18"	#16 Gray Ray Charles
1	17"	Gray Ray Charles
1	10"	#18 holographic body, olive head Mirage Midge
1	14"	#16 Pink Scud
12	15.58"

Sucker

Caught	Avg Size	Pattern	Optional Fields
2	18"	#18 holographic body, olive head mirage nymph
2	18"

Total: 14 fish Top Patterns: Scud (6) Ray Charles (3) mirage nymph (2)

Weather

Skies	Afternoon	Evening
Cloudy	X	X
Precipitation
Rain - Light	X
Rain - Heavy		X
Wind
Very Light - <5 knots	X	X

Air Temp High/Low: - / -
Wind Direction: -
Weather Front: -
Barometer: -
Moon Phase: 71% Full (Waning gibbous)

Other Patterns Tried

No other pattern information for this outing.

Hatches

No hatch information for this outing.

Insect Seining

5 5 Pale Morning Dun Ephemeroptera Ephemerella
8 8 Mahogany Dun Ephemeroptera Paraleptophlebia

Fishing Partners

Derek Blandford

Waypoints

No waypoints were saved with this outing.

Notes

First 200 yards of river downstream of spillway was very good. But LOTS of people. Looked like people lined up for salmon...ridiculous.

Stomach pump revealed fish were eating mostly olive scuds, pink scuds, and gray sow bugs. A scud or sow bug pattern (ray charles) worked excellent. Fish also had lots of midges in stomach and a a couple of fish had one or two emerging caddis.

Caught two pig suckers on midges...very strange. Derek also caught a pig sucker on a midge (in the mouth).