Got to Reiter early for the morning bite. We were the 3rd car in and got our pick of spots. Picked a spot were my buddy just limited a couple days prior. Well, it was flowing at 3400 the day he fished and that's about optimal...river was low and slow yesterday, started the morning at 2800 and was still slightly falling. That water is gin clear. You can see every rock on the bottom out there, and no fish moving through. We saw one guy land a fish on our side, and that's it. We left Reiter at 9am.

As the day went on we hit various spots up and down the Sky, and Wallace. Didn't land any ourselves, or see anyone else land any. We saw two other hookups on the Wallace at the end of the day, but they both got off. One guy was using a spinner and the other was just trying to snag anything swimming in front of him.

We threw everything we had at them. Floating jigs with and without shrimp (raw and cured / natural and colored), floating roe (some just borax, some pro cure), drifting roe, drifting cork and yarn, spinners, spoons, pink worms...you name it, we tried it...and we aren't even sure we bumped anything all day. Had a bobber down a couple times, but we're pretty sure it just ended up being a rock.

Went home skunked. We talked to various people throughout the day, including some locals, who all reported that it's dead and the run is late. One old timer told us he normally has half a card filled up by now and he's only got 4 on the card right now. It's really slow...Need more hard rain...another blowout or two and we should see it come to life...but that goes with all of the rivers right now. I've been hitting the Sound rivers and the peninsula rivers and they are all way slower than they normally would be this time of year. The lack of rain has delayed just about every run this year starting with the pinks.

Oh well...got to take in some beautiful scenery and spend the day out in God's creation with a couple good buddies. Something to be thankful for. Just gonna fish my "back yard" river until we get a heavy rain or two.

strider43

1/2/2014 6:31:00 AM

It is slow out there. I got one satuday on the wallace.....I think I got lucky. up at rieter it is very slow, fished it the 26th nad saw maybe five fish, this time year typically you would see 30 to 50.what is you back yard river?

mizm05

1/5/2014 8:19:00 PM

The Green is my closest river. I hit the Wallace again this weekend and it was the same story, even though we got a day of rain that brought the numbers up to what should be perfect levels. Still no fish and didn't see anybody else having luck either. Slooooooow everywhere.

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