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Crepuscular | August 1st, 2018, 10:48 am | |
Boiling Springs, PA Posts: 923 | Very Nice Jason. Just a couple shades of green...Cool little trout as well.Thanks for posting. Eric | |
Jmd123 | August 1st, 2018, 2:58 pm | |
Oscoda, MI Posts: 2611 | Nice flora and pretty trout! It doesn't get any better than that. I only saw devil's club once in OR, but somehow my ex-wife managed to stumble into it and got stung...I first thought it was bigleaf maple, which is most definitely a riparian species. I have seen leaves bigger than most dinner plates on that tree! They get hung with mosses too, and get this really cool shaggy look to them. Think of the habitat just in those trees! Vine maple is beautiful too, and also a riparian species. Man, a bit wistful for that year I lived on the Oregon coast...seeing all the PNW species again. Sitka spruce is my favorite western tree! (My favorite of all is the bur oak.) Looks like some type of maidenhair fern too, plus I see good old western red-cedar. We had Port-Orford cedar down in the Coos Bay area, which pretty much took over from the red-cedar in our area. That's a beautiful tree too, gets well over 200 feet tall. BIG TREES!!! Those special, colorful little rare trout are always worth pursuing. I mean, look at the scenery! And yes, I know it's a rough hike, been there done that in the Oregon Cascades. But that can also make the reward for the effort even sweeter - especially when you know you are one of but a few to catch those little finned gemstones. People think coral reef fishes are beautiful, and they certainly are with their gaudy colors. But the colors of trout are more subtle and varied - how many different colors can you pick out on those fish? Twenty? More? And they fade and shade into each other, and finally all get glossed over by that purple iridescent wash...I think even more beautiful than bright screaming pink, even if it is combined with yellow or purple. And you gotta have cold, clean waters for them to even be there. So, you end up in places like that shown above catching fish like that shown above. THAT is special. Thanks for sharing, Jason. You do take great photos!! Jonathon P.S. Have you run across a Pacific giant salamander yet? Biggest in the US... | |
No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere... | ||
Martinlf | August 2nd, 2018, 7:45 am | |
Moderator Palmyra PAPosts: 3233 | Gorgeous, Jason. Thanks for sharing this adventure. Nymphs? Dries? When I was in Oregon my nephew and I fished the upper Clackamus River one day. We only caught smallish rainbows, but the water was certainly big enough to harbor larger fish. I guessed that we just hadn't figured out where they were or how to catch them, but everything we consulted indicated that small bows and cutts were the norm there. I wondered about the bug life and growing season. There were certainly some bugs hatching, but I wasn't sure there would be enough through the year to support more and bigger fish. The Deschutes was full of big rainbows. Of course, it's a desert tailwater, and hosts golden stones and salmonflies, along with many other bugs. Oh, and we fished the Crooked River, another smaller desert river full of small bows, many many more, it seemed than the Clackamus. Hatches seemed prolific there, but everyone we talked with in the shops and on the stream agreed that there were very few larger fish in that river. Any thoughts on population densities and fish sizes in these streams and in the one you fished? The Northwest was so different to me--full of surprises and mysteries. | |
"He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'" --Fred Chappell | ||
Roguerat | August 2nd, 2018, 8:12 am | |
Posts: 472 | Dr Jason, Beautiful scenery and a nice, concise write-up on it; much appreciated by this Midwesterner who's only got the UP of MI to compare it to. I need to head west...far, far west. Is this the Elwha River that had the dam removed some years back? AA had a couple 'news' articles on the restoration of the Elwha, along with before-and-after images. Hard to imagine it was an impoundment for a century or more. Roguerat 'Less is more...' Ludwig Mies Vande Rohe | |
Jmd123 | August 2nd, 2018, 8:48 am | |
Oscoda, MI Posts: 2611 | Salmonflies - the "Hex" of the West! Jonathon P.S. Size 4-6 Stimulator with an orange body... | |
No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere... | ||
Troutnut | August 2nd, 2018, 2:51 pm | |
Administrator Bellevue, WAPosts: 2737 | Nymphs? Dries? Mostly dries. I switched to nymphs for a couple fish. Any thoughts on population densities and fish sizes in these streams and in the one you fished? The density in this one seemed pretty low compared to other streams this size that I've fished in the area. Size is mostly small, too, though I did hook and lose a couple around 12-13". These mountain streams aren't extremely productive. Is this the Elwha River that had the dam removed some years back? AA had a couple 'news' articles on the restoration of the Elwha, along with before-and-after images. Hard to imagine it was an impoundment for a century or more. Yeah, it's that Elwha. It's still not open to fishing, but we stayed in a place alongside the river for a couple nights. | |
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Dg6775a | November 16th, 2018, 5:12 pm | |
Posts: 1 | beautiful, reminds of James Run on Broad mt. Nesquehoning, Pa. I live in Jim Thorpe, PA. ;never been west; those trout are beautiful, like all trout! | |
Wbranch | November 17th, 2018, 2:27 pm | |
York & Starlight PA Posts: 2733 | Jason, You surely must love to hike as well as to fish. Even when I was your age or younger I wouldn't ever hike into a jungle that you described unless it was home to a stream filled with wild rainbows 15" - 20". There is a little interesting book called "Steelhead Shangrila" by Robert Wahl. It is about a fellow who literally found a hidden steelhead gem in a channel of a major river in the Pacific northwest. The entrance was obscured with some big deadfalls and log jams and he and a very few close friends fished it for many years before (I'm not positive) high water flooded it out. You, and many other forum members, might enjoy this little read. https://www.amazon.com/Mans-Steelhead-Shangri-Ralph-Wahl/dp/0936608854 | |
Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years. | ||
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