Area Water

After a two-day pit stop back home, I'm back on the road again.  It still feels like summer with the warm temperatures, but everything else points to summer's end.  The air has cleared of the smoke.  Traffic is noticeably lighter on the interstate and side roads than the summer.  The hills are now brown, but there's still some patches of green hanging on, and only a slight yellowing of leaves.  The camp spots are empty, and Norman has the run of the parks. The fishing though still feels very much like that of in-between season.  Summer is past, and fall isn't quite here.  They ain't rising like on Silver Creek.

The river above Clark Canyon is carrying a decent flow, and I fished a mile or so of it.  I had two or three good eats on a streamer, but never connected.  I saw some bwo's, but no fish rising.  Just a tiny trickle of 25cfs is coming out of the lake, and the river is closed for quite a ways downstream to Pipe Organ.  Word has it that it won't reopen until next May.  In town though, it picks up water from the slough and a few other smaller creeks and springs, and the flow is good!  Easy wading, but sparse bugs.  I fished upstream through a private ranch this morning and picked up a few decent fish.  I think most of them are just holding in the deeper water though.  The slough still has decent water flowing as well, but I never saw a fish rise above the parking area.

So there's the river above the lake, the slough, and the river between the slough and town.  I also saw a couple of fish rising in the deeper, slow water at the park just above Barrett's Diversion.  Might need to try those too.

Above Clark Canyon

Plenty of water

Town PMD flat.  Dry.

Above the flat

Some risers here

Been caught a few times.