[Ken Nabors]

Lost a Cabella's clam shell, two sided fly box yesterday 7/10/16 on the Teanaway near the N. Fork Ranch Road Bridge. Lots and lots of nymphs.

 

[Out of Here]

Sorry to hear that - how'd you find the water temps? It's pretty warm and low up there now.

 

[Ken Nabors]

really low and quite warm, stayed just long enough to loose all my nymphs. caught a small bow lower, right off of SR 970. Saw what I can assume were salmon; 24" at least.

 

[Out of Here]

Ken, likely that you saw Northern Pikeminnow if you were under the bridge at the confluence.

 

[Ken Nabors]

Don't those fish devastate a river?

 

[Batt B]

Don't those fish devastate a river?

No. They've been here for millenia. The problem with them is the dams in the Columbia, which sets up a feeding station as the smolts try to run the guantlet of predators below dams, without the benefit of high spring runoff flows to wash them downriver.