Owyhee River, OR
Regular Hole
Outing Information
- Date
- Start/End Time
- 4:00pm to 10:00pm
- Best Fishing Time
- -
- Rating
- Fair
- Classification
- Public
- Water Temp
- 56.0°F
- Water Clarity
- Murky - <1' visibility
- Water Level
- -
- User
- Jason Hansen
Fish Caught
Brown Trout
| Caught | Avg Size | Pattern | Optional Fields |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19" | #20 Rust Clear Wing Spinner | |
| 1 | 18" | #18 Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear | |
| 1 | 16" | #14 Pale Yellow Parachute Emerger | |
| 1 | 12" | #18 Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear | |
| 1 | 12" | #14 Pale Yellow Parachute Emerger | |
| 5 | 15.4" |
Weather
| Skies | Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunny | X | X | |
| Precipitation | |||
| None | X | X | |
| Wind | |||
| None | X | ||
| Very Light - <5 knots | X | X | |
| Light - 5 to 10 knots | X |
- Air Temp High/Low
- 80.0°F / -
- Wind Direction
- -
- Weather Front
- -
- Barometer
- -
- Moon Phase
- 51% Full (Last quarter)
Other Patterns Tried
No other pattern information for this outing.
Hatches
- Blue-Winged Olive Ephemeroptera Baetis
- Pale Morning Dun Ephemeroptera Ephemerella
Insect Seining
No seining information for this outing.
Fishing Partners
No fishing partners were saved with this outing.
Waypoints
No waypoints were saved with this outing.
Notes
I started fishing just upstream of where Jim, Connie and I stopped to watch the huge fish behind the big rock last summer. There were no rises but lots of birds eating hatching PMD duns. I nymphed with a #10 BH pheasant tail and a #18 hare’s ear dropper and caught an 18” brown on the second drift. I nymphed and nymphed after that and caught nothing but snags. I was using fluorocarbon for the first time and I must say, it is very very strong. I was straightening out the small, fine hooks when they would get snagged and I’d pull on them. After half an hour or so I caught a 12” brown nymphing.
After that I drove up to where Zak and I usually fish but there were several people in the hole so I went upstream maybe 100 yards and nymphed my way up the flat water to the riffles and had no hits. I tied on a zonker and made maybe 20 casts without luck. I then relaxed for a bit before driving to the bottom of the big hole I usually fish. There was a large flock of birds snatching mayflies off the water, and I saw a few rise rings down on the flats. I walked down to the river and most of the rises stopped. After 20 minutes or so with the river now in shadows, there were sporadic rises. I tied on a PMD sparkle dun and had a PMD emerger dropper off it and caught a couple browns, one at 19”. I waited for consistently-rising fish before casting. I was standing in 6” to 1’ deep water and the fish were in maybe 1’ of water.
After awhile I walked up the length of the hole and didn’t really see any rises. That’s surprising since usually in the evening fish are surfacing everywhere along that stretch – and, there was a nice hatch during the day and I was seeing lots of drowned PMD spinners. I’m surprised the trout weren’t more active on the surface.
I had 3 or so more fish on on the #20 rusty clear wing spinner but didn’t get good hook sets on them.