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7 hours ago, The_Real_TCIII said:

It's a no kill section. There were caddis and mayflies coming off but nothing eating them so I never switched to dries


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Dont want to be a negative guy but I have too.  With this extreme heat and lack of rain puts a huge stress on these stream trout.  There chance of survival after fighting with low oxygen levels and high water temps will more than likely kill them in short order.  Its being advised and I highly condone this advice is to leave these small fisheries alone till water temps drop and we get adequate rain to help already stressed fish.  There are a lot of flyfisherman including myself who have stayed off the streams for a couple months now that are not happy but its the right thing to do for the future of good fishing. 

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22 hours ago, The_Real_TCIII said:

Pics aren't great but I was afraid I'd drop my phone in the water lol

awesome day glad you got out!

I will quote my letter to the montana fish and game written each year that they suspend fishing at 2pm during august.

You misguided piscatorial experts believe it is too warm to fish and it will stress them??    BOSH!

The herons and otters, kingfishers and mink et als,  don't lay off the trout when its warm, they hit them harder in the shallower drying up pools, and they have done so for millennia before a latin spewing man set a wader clad foot in  stream!

And the fish were the better for it!

It is the arrogance of man to overestimate his effect on the natural world.

In fact,  if one  truly cared about improving fish one would push the fish harder and harder just as athletes are pushed, ever improving the fish so that only the best and strongest survived.

We would push the fishes stamina to the point where dropping an EHC on a stream would result in a trout leaping from the water and snapping the fly rod in half and beating the fisherman with it and taking his tobacco to boot.

coddling fish and babying them is no favor to the future genetics of the trout! 

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Dont want to be a negative guy but I have too.  With this extreme heat and lack of rain puts a huge stress on these stream trout.  There chance of survival after fighting with low oxygen levels and high water temps will more than likely kill them in short order.  Its being advised and I highly condone this advice is to leave these small fisheries alone till water temps drop and we get adequate rain to help already stressed fish.  There are a lot of flyfisherman including myself who have stayed off the streams for a couple months now that are not happy but its the right thing to do for the future of good fishing. 


Are you referring specifically to the Salmon River? To me it's fairly big, fast water and well oxygenated but I understand your point. They seem do have done their homework in choosing that no kill stretch, it's considerably cooler than where I started downstream. Possibly due to springs?
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Are you referring specifically to the Salmon River? To me it's fairly big, fast water and well oxygenated but I understand your point. They seem do have done their homework in choosing that no kill stretch, it's considerably cooler than where I started downstream. Possibly due to springs?

Depends what Salmon River your talking about.  I believe you are referring to the Little Salmon.  

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23 hours ago, The_Real_TCIII said:

I stop in Pulaski after duck hunting every year to eat lunch and watch the show, it's entertaining!


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Try Living on it.  The local economy couldnt survive without the fisherman but sure wish they would pick up after themselves.

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