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**[email protected]** · August 17th, 2006, 07:35 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

wrote:
I took a weekday off from work and left early, to go do a little late
summer fishing
in the Park. Got there early enough to get to the lower end of Slough
Creek at about
7:30 am. Not a soul in sight. We saw fish cruising here and there. But
they weren't
in anyway feeding that early: no dimples, no flashing sides. Mostly
they were sitting
still, sometimes moving but no natural feeding and not much response to
flies.
Tried everything from itty bitty to huge, both wet and dry.

I did get a few nice cutthroats to follow a streamer, but not to bite.
The water was cool enough but low.

So we hiked out and drove up to look at Soda Butte.
Soda Butte was tiny, yet innundated with fishermen. There must
have been 100 parked cars (not all of them fishermen) and at way too
many fishermen along the creek. The water was so low you could see from
the highway the fish would all be crowded into the few deep holes there
are,
and each deep hole had at least one fisherman.

The upper end of the Lamar was one fisherman after another. We didn't
hike
up toward Cache Creek, which might have worked. But the meadow itself
was a disaster. The water was so low there were 3-4" deep riffles a
half a mile
long, with all the fish concentrated into the few deep spots left. And
each deep hole
had two or more fisherman already there. We saw one nice 20" cutthroat
dead
and belly up in shallow water, cartwheeling down a riffle.
[snip]

This fish transpired due to old age or what?

Your pal,

Halfordian Golfer
It is impossible to catch and release a wild trout.