Took a friend out fishing on the Tilton Saturday morning. On the water around 8:00. Starting catching fish within a few minutes. Worked our way down stream dead-drifting nymphs on a 10' leader and floating line along seams, pockets around boulders, and around overhanging vegetation. Fished until lunch with two in my creel and right around twenty (between the two of us) or so caught and released. All were native Rainbows averaging between 6 - 8 inches, the two I did keep were hatchery about 13"-14" in length.

Moved downstream just below the confluence of the north fork and fished a couple more hours. Had a couple bites but no hookups. The rain didn't appear to be letting up, and the water level starting rising more than what I was comfortable with. Off the water by 4:00...we left the Tilton and decided to do some scouting along the Cowlitz and Cispus instead.

All in all...a good day.

knotabassturd

10/11/2010 5:53:00 PM

Nice report! A little late in season for flyfishing trout with the waters starting to come up (and fast late that day LOL). That's a bit downstream. Nice! I used to flyfish around Indian Hole area many years ago. There are some big native cutts here and there. Now I mostly just play at the hatchery hot dog place (Morton). Still fun especially with the salmon but not quite the same as dry-fly fishing for little scrappy natives lower down (or further up). If you get the time this winter, hunting for a few of those steelhead upstream trucked up from the Cow can be fun. Good luck.

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