Stanislaus

Thur, drive to Pigeon Flat, by Dardanelles. Fished Fri, Sat, drive home Sun with detour to look at the Clavey. Fri, AM, not so well in upper river above campground. Can't remember count or type. I think the first one I caught was a medium sized brown. Not exactly sure.

Fri PM climb up and into the slot, and did great. Hooked and lost a monster (20" or so?), and took three more for dinner. One caught and lost, taking my nymph. Re-caught, and fought into shallows, and got back my first nymph. Brent and Alan both caught 4. 11 fish for dinner. All rainbows.

Sat AM took Alan and Brent back to same spot. Brent kept catching large fish, but loosing them to broken tippet. Using 7x. Don't remember my count, (at least three decent fish) but wasn't exceptionally productive. Seem to remember loosing one fly per fish caught. Hooked nymph deep on tree. Lost black nymph recovered from previous night upstream (taken or snagged?). Fell through hole and hurt my leg. Sat PM fished lower river, and took three, one decent, two small right as we were leaving, while Brent caught and lost his monster (another broken tippet). Lost my entire rig (indicator and nymph) up a tree. Somewhere or another on the trip I took a nice medium sized brown. Can't remember exactly where.

Sun packed and left early enough to look at Clavey, have lunch at campe ground near Clavey. Phenomenal geology in the Clavy, visible from the bridges, looking down into the water. Alan was great a cook entire for the enire trip. I washed dishes.