Sunday Morning on River Y

[Mike Cline]

After reading Tim Angeli’s post on River X, I felt like I was giving away to much information about my honey holes in my posts so I changed my writing style a bit.  Left the house this morning at 4:45AM from City B and headed over Pass B to Valley P.  It was still dark when I got to Town G but the Town Café opened at 6AM and I headed in for Breakfast.  Big new among the locals was the bear that’s been prowling around at night.  By 6:30AM I was at the trailhead and heading up River Y.  My goal was a point just over 3 miles into the BC of River Y where I could get about a good ¾ mile of great water in between the narrower parts that are un-accessible.  I had never fished this part of River Y and was really pumped after listening to Yanni at full volume on my drive up Valley P.

At the River Y trailhead

River Y about a mile up the BC

BC of River Y has a lot of productive water that’s tough to get to.

The hike in was quiet and cool.  The BC was alive with Osprey. I didn’t take waders but did drag in a pair of studded boats—River Y can get quite slippery.  After passing Creek B, there was about a mile to go to my fishin hole.

Creek B, One mile to go

Creek B where it flows into River Y

Getting ready to gear up.

By 8AM I was rigged up and fishing.  Water was very clear and Black or Brown bunny streamers on the 7 wgt took a lot of C type trout but no large fish came to hand.  By 11AM I switched to the 4wgt and started throwing foam hoppers.  A lot of R type, CB type and C type trout came to hand- many from just inches of water along the shoreline.  A few W type fish also played the game. Nothing large but several trout were in the 14” range and the action was steady.  By 2PM the T-heads were building and I began my exit from the BC of River Y.  By 3:30PM I was again at the trailhead.  In baseball they tell you to “Hit them were they ain’t.”  That’s a bit like the BC of River Y.  In almost 8 hours of hiking and fishing, I saw no one else fishing and only a couple of hikers.  It is easy to be alone in the BC of River Y.

Can’t go much further from here.

¾ mile of great water downstream from here.

The C type trout loved the bunny streamers.

C types were suckers for the foam hoppers

So were the B Type trout

I trust I didn’t give away too much.

PS. Lauren, I only saw two snakes—both garters.

Not a big snake, but a snake just the same.

[Eric Weller]

Nice Mike,

[cole m.]

Nice man, gorgeous scenery!

[bob woutila]

Just absolutely beautiful !!!

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