Fish here, use these...catch these

Fish here... the riffs at the head of this slow, silt edged run.

It's like being addicted.  When I know the Hex spinner fall is on, come 6:30- 7:00 in the evening, I have a hard time concentrating on any thing else.  So.... last evening I found myself standing on the edge of my favorite Hex water.  I arrived about an hour before the spinner fall began, just to fish with 'normal' sized flies for a while.  The fishing and catching was good.  I fished a BWO sparkle dun #18 and had fish for cast on the first 5 casts.  I lost it on a stick, trying to get a little closer to the log, you know how that is, so I tied on a thorax BWO #16.  The fish love that one too.  All the browns were nice, 12" -14" and FAAAT.  These are nice healthy fish.  I had a nice surprise.  On the BWO thorax a nice fish sucked it off the surface and on the hook set it went airborne several times.  As I got the fish ready to net I noticed it was an Atlantic salmon.  It was a nice healthy fish and the biggest Atlantic I've caught in this creek.



Nice 12" Atlantic salmon, ID'd by the fork tail.

 The Fish Creek Atlantic Salmon Club stocked this stretch of Fish Creek in 2010 and last year I picked up two about half this size. One from Fish Creek and another in the Mad River which flows into this section of Fish Creek. 

The fishing on the BWOs was so good I started to worry that I might sting too many trout and put most of them down before the Hex appeared, so I took a break. 



Use these... Hex compara dun tie on #6 hook

Catch these...

...and these

The Hex spinners started showing up about 7:45 and the trout started doing their thing about 15 minutes later.  This went on into the dark and I landed several in the 14" -18" range, nothing bigger.

There were a few White Flies starting to show up last night and it was good to finally start to see them.  The hatch should get stronger over the next week or so and they will be around till mid to late September, same as always.

I noticed this past weekend that the trees are not as green as they have been and along some stretches of highway some trees, a few, are showing a hint of color.  A look at the calander tells me that in 8 weeks from now we will be past peak color here and the leaf hatch will be choking the Salmon River.  8 weeks from now believe it or not and the salmon fishing will also be past peak and the steelhead fishing will be ramping up for what we are all expecting, another awesome fall on the steelhead.

Tight lines.