The fishinhg has been good on high water this week. Actually it has been very good.  Not a ton of dry fly fishing, but the nymph bite has been on. On Wednesdya , if the wind hadn’t cuahgt us at the wrong time, the BWO dry fly fishing would have been good. Instead of dries, soft hackles tookm their place and produced.

On Tuesday, David , Amy and Beth Petry, from Quartz Creek Lodge in Alaska floated with us. We have the priviledge of guiding them each year. What a super family they are. The Petry’s have their own family lodge and guide service in the Kodiac region of Alaska . Those who go say it is the experience of a lifetime. Again Quartz Creek Lodge .

The Petry’s hammered the trout on high water. It was Beth’s first brown trout.. pretty neat stuff.

Matt and I floated Thursday and Friday. We picked up fish on nymphs from the beginning to the end of the float. Otherwise, we hammered them pretty good also.

So the moral of the story is, high water float fishing is excellent right now.

Matt is still open for floating next week. The sections that have been closed since November for spawning browns will be open to fishing beginning Monday, February 1.  Which means these fish have not been fished in 3 months. They will be big, fat and a little dumb. What a combination. If you guys don’t book him, he will have to paddle for me. It is too good a situation to let the boat sit still.

Tight Lines,

Rod Champion