Beaverhead July 6 (760cfs)

It was high, but fairly clear by Beaverhead standards.  On a recent visit in late June, it wasn't so clear, even though it was 300 cfs lower.  Go figure.  It has problems with water from Clark Canyon Res.  It gets dirty, especially in recent years.  I stayed to fish and float on the 7th, but floated on out and left the neighborhood.  River was dirty again, with no hatches and no rising fish.  This one day I just got lucky I guess, because it was worth the float.  #16 LCC was the only fly I needed.

 

 

"First channel right" was very good to me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Both fish were holding on this point of slower water

 

 

Got to here by shortly after noon, and it was pretty much over.

 

Depuys Spring Creek (July 2, 3, 4)

Three days on the same creek?  Why not?  Each day was different.  Day one was a little tough, as I was just in the wrong spots at the wrong times.  I did have two good runs through the "square rock pool" in the middle section though.  Day two I fished Betty's all day, with only one other angler below me, and it was steady most of the morning and afternoon.  On day three, I parked in a lower flat, with a good hatch, risers all around, and just ripped lips.  The beetle to start, then my "Depuy Cripple" until they all ate it, and I finished with a different CDC cripple in the faster bottom of the run.  It was the best day I ever had on Depuy's.  Pretty much non-stop. 

Started here, and left too soon on day one.  Grumpy was there with a client too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Busy, but I had this lower flat, and it was all I needed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This late storm was the only thing that stopped the madness!

 

Armstrong's Spring Creek (July 1)

Its a recurring thing.  I have the standing reservation made a year in advance for the PMD hatch.  The creek is full, of both fish and fishermen, but there's enough of the fish to go around.  Its less crowded than most other waters on 4th of July weekend, that's for sure.  I know exactly how many people will be here, and can plan and fish accordingly.  I have July 1-2 on it next year . . . This year was "fantasy fishing."  Lots of fish, rising until mid-afternoon, and again in the evening.  I didn't move 50 feet all morning.  Didn't have to.  Same with the upper island in the evening.

 

 

 

 

 

The evolving CC HPHD was a killer

 

 

 

 

 

 

My hanging thread-body "Depuy Cripple" as I call it.  Deadly.

 

 

 

My "Beaverhead Slick Spinner" was a hit in the evening.  Also a yellow thread body.