We fished the Rush today from about 1:30 to 4:00. This time, however, we split up and took some buddies out. Aric hit the stream and saw fish rising to BWOs in the first hole. He ended up catching 6-8 fish, including one nearly 15″ brown, on a parachute BWO. He said bigger fish were rising, not just the dinks we’ve mostly seen of late. His friend was spin fishing and caught around six himself.
I took my friends Karl and Alex to a different bridge. I spent most of my time teaching Karl to nymph while Alex spin fished. Karl ended up catching 6-8, his biggest being a 12″ brown. He was using a size 14 pheasant tail and size 16 black zebra midge, with the majority taken on the midge. Alex caught five, with his biggest being a 14″ brown that came out from under a log to smash his spinner. I ended up catching four, all under 6″. We noticed a fair amount of rising when we first arrived, but they were all pretty small. The bite slowed down a lot in our last hour of fishing, and I could feel the water getting noticeably colder. We were definitely getting the last of the runoff from Wednesday’s snow.
Looking at the USGS water data, the Kinni has slowly risen but should definitely be fishable. For what it’s worth, there have been 3-5 cars parked at the Lower Kinni access by our house every day, so the fishing must be decent. Hopefully we don’t get too much rain tonight and the next couple days should be great fishing!
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