The PM is still running high and dirty.  I have been on the river the past three days and have not found the fishing to be all that great, however when you do hook into one they tend to be in the upper teens.  Most fish that have been hitting are on larger streamers that are being stripped slowly.

Hex have started in the lower river, but so far I haven't heard about there being great fishing due to the high, cold, dirty water.  I'm heading out for hex camp until next week Thursday.  Hopefully have some new videos to post soon.

Below is Hubbard (outfittersnorth.com)with a nice brown taken on a streamer.  

Bill's first fish on his "Retirement Rod"!  Congrats Bill!  Beautiful fish!

Fishing has been decent as of late.  A week ago it was great, but since the cool down over the weekend and the two massive thunderstorms we have had, things have slowed a bit.  Unfortunately, the drakes are over (with just a few bouncing about).  This grey drake season was one of the best as far as I am concerned.  I will be posting another video of drake action as soon as I get internet that is fast enough to load it to YouTube.  The video itself is done, but it keeps "failing to load".

Last week Nate and I hit the some nice rising fish (that you will see when the video is posted).  After landing some beauties it shut down for a while...just long enough to get rigged up for a bit of mousing.  While we did roll plenty, the must have been all male fish, because they were not committing.

On Monday, Kirk and I dropped in for a late evening fish.  We opted to fish some water that we very rarely fish in the evenings.  We got into fish early and often using various rubber-legged hopper patterns.  Here are just a few of the fish that we managed to fool.

Over the years, Kirk and I have this uncanny ability to run into random people on the river and pick them up as hitchhikers.  For some reason, they all seem to have the same name:  Dave.  This evening, we picked up a Dave from somewhere north of Minneapolis.  He had never tried mousing before.  Needless to say, we have a new addict. 

When taking out of the river that night around 1:30, we ran into a couple of guys dropping a buddy off before they continued on until dawn.  I don't know if they were brave, dumb or crazy, because in the west there seemed to be a bunch of flash photography going off.  Around 4 a.m., I was awoken by straight line winds, pouring rain, thunder and lightning.  My first thought, I hope that they made it off before it hit, but I doubt it.   They would have to have rowed out to make it before the skies started raising havoc.

The big bugs should be coming soon.  Look at the spiderwebs along the streams to get a heads up.  Then take an afternoon nap and get ready for the hex hatch!

Hopefully this week and next, I will be venturing to the Big Sandy for some R & D.  

In case you forgot what they look like.