Big water, big fish!

Need help tomorrow!

Looking for a few glory seekers to help do a quick river cleaning tomorrow. Our 4900cfs has flushed a fair amount of trash into the North Platte at Grey Reef and it needs to be combed. Give me a shout at (307)237-1182.
We have been insanely busy so I haven't been able to get to the poll results. But I will soon.
A quick rundown of our water situation is the upper Platte is feeding Seminoe with better than 16,000cfs. Seminoe is at 90+% capacity. Miracle Mile went over 10,200cfs this AM and it is running 10,000cfs currently. Pathfinder is at 94+% capacity. Fremont is getting 2300cfs...quite a sight for sore eyes! Alcova is full and there is some water coming down the spillway. Grey Reef is 4900cfs as of this AM. There are flood watches in several areas of Wyoming, with some areas already flooding. All that doomsday news and the fishing is excellent. Don't waste an opportunity to fish it at big water. It is a blast! We will help you get oriented and point out the right bugs.
Erik

Fremont at 500cfs.

Big water!

1999 was the last year Pathfinder reservoir saw anything resembling pool level. Currently Pathfinder is sitting at 86.6% of capacity and Seminoe is not that far behind. We have yet to see the full dose of runoff and the mountain ranges feeding this animal have not even begun to shed their snow pack. What does this all mean for us fly fisherman?
Well, we may be fortunate enough to see all of our favorite North Platte tailwaters at near flood levels. All those tasty back channels will become fishable and if there was ever a year to throw a big streamer or hopper to the bank...this might be it. Below is some current water data just to give you an idea of whats going on and feel free to do the math, this water has to go somewhere.

Seminoe Res. inflow 7971cfs
outflow 4018cfs
74% full
Kortes Res. FULL
Pathfinder Res. inflow 4654cfs
outflow 2280cfs
86.6% full
Alcova Res. FULL
Glendo Res. FULL

*note during peak runoff the upper North Platte will experience flows between 12,000 and 15,000cfs.

Big Fish!

A couple of good sized Grey Reef fish from the past week. The brown ate a sz. 4 goldie and the bow, a sz. 20 olive pulsating emerger.

Grey Reef Brown Trout

Gary Ghiselli put this animal in the net on his final cast of the day. Net man was Erik, pencil pusher, of the Reef Fly Shop and North Platte Lodge. Good way to end the trip...eh? Miller High Life in the background. The "Champaign of Beers" and a trophy Grey Reef brown trout...cheers!
May 1st 2010

Grey Reef Fly Fishing