Careful what you post about the Cedar here, the next time you roll to your favorite hole it might be lined up with a train of guys wearing brand new Orvis gear, I'll stay quiet on what I found. Make sure your tippet is at least 8lb Maxima
The Owyhee is awesome! there is some great fishing in there. If the river isn't to cloudy make sure you spend a day hunting some giant browns from the shore down river from the high fish count water. Catching 30+ rainbows and browns that range from 16" to 28" is excellent... But, Hunting a 10+lb brown patrolling the shore down river a little ways is the shiznit IMHO
Double rigs have netted me many more tangles than fish. I will sometimes go two-fly to increase my odds of figuring out what they are eating. If one fly gets taken twice before the other gets taken once, the non-producer gets cut off, so I can quit undoing tangles and get down to business.
I would argue that a two fly setup, regardless of what the two are - one dry, one nymph, two nymphs, etc.- is more about determining where in the column they are eating than what they are eating. If I get two takes on the nymph, the dry goes away because it's just going to get tangled.
I like two fish two nymphs, the top one is my heavy fly and usually a general attractor pattern, the lower is a smallish nymph like a size 18 PTN (non bead head) as more of a realistic type.
Well it was a rather typical night on the Seedy tonight. A strung out looking fellow pointing out every sucker fish in the pocket telling me "there over here man". The next strung out fellow told me how he feels it is his right to fish the river year round, and gets his King every year. He said he caught a fat 20" rainbow right over there, "released it" he said. Since he was such a regulation abiding fellow I kindly nodded my head and went about my business, after all I had a free local guide of the river pointing out all the suckers next to me. To end the night a charming couple hunched in a bench area hitting some type of heavy drug from a tin foil pipe. Ahhhh, the Cedar.
man I was going to check it this weekend since I've never fished it, but I'm now I'm thinking not. I fly fish for trout to be in beautiful places and relax, not just to catch fish and certainly have no desire to see bums and tweakers while fishing, let alone having to worry about my car. back to the mountains I go.
Yep I'm waiting for these alpine lakes to thaw out, then the Cedar will be a distant memory for me. I make sure I'm the first guy on the river every year and get my hogs on the first few casts
Well the alternative fishery on the Cedar is actually quite entertaining. There are some very large abundant suckers in certain runs, and it turns out euro nymphing them is a hoot. While they do not fight as hard as a supercharged cedar rainbow, they do hit a few good deep hard runs. Ugly as hell but anything on the fly can be fun. Hooked many tonight to provide enough cheap thrills on the 4wt. Saw some nice trout feeding top but no takers.
Took off work at 3:30 and hit it for the first time tonight. Traffic was hellacious getting out, but that just makes stepping in to the river that much better.
Caught some small guys on drys. Largest was around 12 inches but felt like 15. I feel like the cedar fish always have some extra fight.
Saw someone getting out of their waders on the highway on my way out around 10 when it was full dark.
Took off work at 3:30 and hit it for the first time tonight. Traffic was hellacious getting out, but that just makes stepping in to the river that much better.
Caught some small guys on drys. Largest was around 12 inches but felt like 15. I feel like the cedar fish always have some extra fight.
Saw someone getting out of their waders on the highway on my way out around 10 when it was full dark.
This is has been happening to me more than usual, but I have managed to land some decent fish thus far.
The little guy in the picture above though....he just wouldn't let go. He cleared the water 3 or 4 times but couldn't spit the hook. I tried to get him to LDR, put some slack in the line, but he was still there. In a couple more years I expect him to be the boss of my favorite little run out there.
Would floating pontoons from landsburg to the mouth be a bit sketchy? Probably a few impassable log jams I haven't seen yet. Or any recommendations for a safe put in to float down to the mouth?
So, I was just checking the new regulations for the Cedar River. Did these change?
It seems like the season opens earlier now, Saturday before Memorial Day instead of the first week of June. Also it looks like you can keep trout, except CUTTHROAT and wild RAINBOW TROUT. So are they stocking the Cedar now? This just seems to make the rules even more confusing.
Cedar River - King Co. from mouth to Landsburg Rd. Bridge (RM 21.5)
ALL SPECIES Night closure. Internal combustion motors prohibited. Selective gear rules.
TROUT Sat. before Memorial Day-Aug. 31 Statewide min. size/daily limit, except release CUTTHROAT TROUT and wild RAINBOW TROUT.
OTHER GAME FISH Sat. before Memorial Day-Aug. 31 Statewide min. size/daily limit.
WDFW hasn't stocked local rivers and streams with trout for years and I don't believe they have any intentions to start. The only trout in the Cedar are Rainbow and Cutthroat so basically it's still catch and release. If you look through the whole new regulation pamphlet, you'll see that "release CUTTHROAT TROUT and wild RAINBOW TROUT" is in there just about everywhere now. While I've never seen one I suppose there could be a Brook Trout in the Cedar and if you wanted to, you could keep those.
That's just idiotic to even write the regulations like that... Imagine all the bozos that are going to be out there "well I thought it was a" with an 18" rainbow laying on the bank. More fine work from WDFW.
While I suppose you could catch the rainbow trout that were stocked in Lake Washington and decided to swim up the Cedar, I think it makes the regulations a lot harder to understand. Like Elliott5400 said, it now gives people more of an excuse than they had before, and from what I've encountered people will try to use every gray area as a loophole.
Trout stocked in Lake Washington....of which there are none anyway, but if there were....wouldn't be marked in any way so basically you're looking at a "wild" rainbow and you can't keep them. Again, look at the regulations and you will see that release notation in hundreds of rivers, not just the Cedar.
I'm just waiting to see a stringer of wild trout here in the next few days from this wonderful re-written regulation! I think it's time for me to go sample Idaho..
I love the cedar, but man I don't miss tweakers and body searches! Out here we just wait for the bodies to re-surface, then some local kid will poke at it with a stick until he gets bored and tells his ma. Just as the good lord intended.
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