Finally, the river has come back into shape.\u00a0 Although when I checked my records I see\u00a0it was actually later than this last year before we could get after the brown bass on the river.\u00a0 I\u00a0headed up to my preferred high water\u00a0launch site this weekend and was greeted by hoard of mosquitos the\u00a0likes of which would rival anything in Alaska.\u00a0 Luckily I had everything pretty much ready to go and was soon headed up river.\u00a0 I hit a few key spots on the run up to Monticello, but mostly just enjoyed the ride.\u00a0 Fishing pressure overall was pretty light, and I was able to fish everywhere I wanted.<\/p>\n

And the smallies were goin’!\u00a0\u00a0 Numbers were good, size was great, and fish were caught\u00a0on a variety of presentation.\u00a0 As far as flies go, I didn’t have much action on poppers [which is odd, conditions were seemingly perfect for popper fishing], but got a few on Stay Hungry Streamers, the biggest measured an honest 19 and 15\/16″ long.\u00a0 Spinnerbaits, soft plastics and crankbaits were all eaten by the brownies on a regular basis, although the highlight of the day may have been when\u00a0a big channel cat\u00a0absolutely destroyed a spinnerbait right next to shore.\u00a0 Here is an example of the flies I used.\u00a0 Feel free to contact me for tying instructions, or check with a fly shop that sells Umpqua Flies<\/a>Lots of good days to come, and I’m especially looking forward to the White Miller Hatch in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

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Finally, the river has come back into shape.\u00a0 Although when I checked my records I see\u00a0it was actually later than this last year before we could get after the brown bass on the river.\u00a0 I\u00a0headed up to my preferred high water\u00a0launch site this weekend and was greeted by hoard of mosquitos the\u00a0likes of which would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,18,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildsmallie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildsmallie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildsmallie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildsmallie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildsmallie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/wildsmallie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"http:\/\/wildsmallie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildsmallie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildsmallie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildsmallie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}