Headed down with Ted and Larry and were on the water at Cardiac by 9:30 am. It was drizzling and overcast, maybe 45 degrees but didn't feel all that chilly. I fished right in front and they headed upstream. I flogged that hole from very angle, unwilling to give in and then finally headed downstream. I fished around the bend from the big timber elbow hole where I caught the two browns last week- nothing doing. There was a guy fishing the deep hole and then three guys down below so I packed it in and hustled upstream. I was pretty surprised to not even have had a hit so far.
Ted was seeing fish rise in the flat pool above the house and hadn't fished any higher ustream. There was a bald eagle hanging out in a tree overlooking the river which was pretty cool. A little further up I found Larry who had found some fish. He had high-tailed it up above the Dry Fork and was catching them on the olive woolies I had given him. I hung out with him for a couple and then headed up there myself.
Right away I caught one in the elbow of the junction. Nice fat 14" rainbow. I was letting the woolie drift into the hole and it hit on the second strip. I moved upstream to the next big flat and then started working down. I landed this fish the same way fishing it into some nice timber structure, there was lots of it.
I didn't land any more fish until I got down below the junction but they were definately there. I had some hits and saw a couple fish following the woolie out of holes. They were deep. Around the corner I fished on the opposite side of some timber and caught one more fishing the woolie the same way. The rainbows are defianately concentrated upstream.
We left around 2 pm. Larry ended up with 3 rainbows and a brown, Ted with one small smallie and I got 3 decent rainbows. Ted is the only one who didn't fish above the house.
CFS was right around 310 and it was pretty overcast for most of the morning, I think there would have been a lot more fish caught had I followed Larry to begin with. Also, the number of people fishing below Cardiac was amazing, but there were hardly any tracks upstream.
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