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Eagle Cap Fishing Guides
By Mac Huff
Hot, dry weather in late July sets the stage for "summer" fishing in
Wallowa County. No precipitation during the week brought most local
rivers below average levels for early August.
Wallowa County streams average about ten percent below average flow for
early August. The Grande Ronde River presently is 680 cfs.
The weather pattern is changing this week, with the arrival of
thunderstorms and scattered precipitation, which brought welcome relief
from the heat that is consistently more than 100 degrees, in the canyons
on sunny days.
The Wallowa River is maintaining relatively cool water temperatures and
rainbows are active, feeding on grasshoppers during the day and abundant
caddis and mayflies in the evenings. The low water in the Wallowa, as
well as other streams, are generally moving trout out of the tailouts
and into deep pockets or into riffles, where turbulence hides them and
insects are washing free from the river bottom.
The Grande Ronde River is approaching the upper temperature limits for
good trout fishing with the water temperature in the upper 70s, but the
vitality of the fish indicates that they are faring well and actively
feeding. The warmer water is a windfall for smallmouth bass, which are
abundant from the Snake River upstream for more than 50 miles. While
trout are readily taking grasshopper flies, the smallmouth are leaning
toward crayfish, minnow and attractor patterns. In the river near Troy
anglers will tend to find more rainbows and the number of smallmouth
bass increase dramatically as you move closer to the Snake River.
Wallowa Lake remains a reliable "hot spot" for trout fishing, says Gina
Barstad at Wallowa Lake Marina. “The lake was stocked with trout on
Tuesday”, she says, which makes the fishing good and the catching great.
Some anglers continue to make the effort to catch kokanee which are now
near the 100-foot depth. The kokanee are scattered, but once the school
is located and if your gear will reach them they will bite. Most anglers
fishing for kokanee at these depths are using down riggers, but one boat
with lead-core line and two-ounce spin sinkers caught kokanee up to 17
inches early this week.
“Trout anglers are catching limits trolling and still fishing at the
south, east and west sides of the lake”, Barstad says. Pautzke eggs and
Power Bait or eggs alone are producing good catches for still fishing.
Barstad cautions anglers to be alert for bull trout that reside in the
lake and must be released unharmed it they are caught.
The lake is relatively high and dropping three to four inches per day,
Barstad says.
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