With the sizzling summer heat turned up hotter than normal. The rivers and creeks running low since we didn’t get much snow, 63% less than average. Most of the rivers are shut down or in Hoot Owl fishing conditions.    

    I gave Gary a call to see what he was up too. I mention something about going up and fishing Salmon Creek, this afternoon.  The water should be fairly cool coming out of the bottom of reservoir.   I think he was already loaded up and rolling down toward my house with his gear in hand before we were off the phone.

  We spent just a short bit on the creek the wind is pretty what ran us off after about two and a half hours. We started up at MP’s and worked are way down. Stopping the truck and working about a 1/4 mile at each stop. 

We mostly work the creek from opposite sides to be able to cover both banks. It still amazes  me as to as to the size a fish, maybe 3 inch that will go after a size 10 hopper or even bigger. And how many time that you can catch two fish on a hopper dropper setup. 

There are just a few nice deep pools to want to do the Hopper / Dropper.I prefer to either one or the other setups. 

I'm having a hard enough time just tying on a small #12 caddis fly rite now with the wind and waiting on getting my new glasses. Next week the new glasses will be in. I can go back to tying flies and threading even flies down to a #20 maybe.

Gary and I both caught lot of little fish and we each pulled out a lunker to the water we worked. Gary's a 8.5 Bow and Mine was the first fish of the day this 9.5-10Brook.   I'll be heading back up there every chance I get for the next few weeks. 

Also Salmon Creek is now open just like the lowland lakes Saturday before Memorial Day until Oct 31 its in the online WDFW Fishing Reg. book page 73.