View Full Version : Umpqua Today - Need your Help!
MattyFlavor
04-01-2006, 09:54 AM
Working (umpiring) a double-header down in Drain today... leaving in about 30 minutes...
If you were me, would you run to below Elkton or all the way out to the fly water on the North Fork???
I will slap a string on the Umpqua ... the question I have for all you that are reading this morning, is ... where to go!
Any recent reports outta that water at all?
The flow looks decent. What's the ideal level on the Elkton guage again?
Here's to hopin'! Your instant feedback is most appreciated! (Gotta go pack the car for fishing!)
Chromaflage
04-01-2006, 10:00 AM
My choice would be tube or toon Loon Lake. I don't know if it's open right now, but that's where I'd want to go.
CrF
gimmeumpqua
04-01-2006, 06:21 PM
Well, probably too late to steer you away but I didn't have any luck today on the fly water...I heard about a couple fish caught yesterday around Steamboat. Ol' Joe howell says it's been pretty slow...
Kurt
I just got back from 5 days in the fly water and stopped to talk to Joe Howell to confirm that there just aren't a large number of fish up. I'd do it down by Elkton.
MattyFlavor
04-06-2006, 10:14 AM
Well, thanks for the feedback... I worked over at N. Douglas HS and we had a very strong downpour (a little less than half an hour) during the first game of the double-header... I looked at the creeks in and around Drain and they were all chocolate milk at the time, I also stopped in at the store in Drain (pretty much a waste, but...) then decided that driving the milage into Elkton or out to the fly water would have been for naught - swinging flies through chocolate milk is not often the most worthwhile endeavor, so I took some back roads on the trip home to Eug and saw some new-to-me stretches of water on the CF Willamette that I wasn't as familiar with... stopped at Dexter Dam and chatted with the gear guys there, who weren't having any luck either... during another downpour... and headed home.
I can't wait to get out to the Fly Water though, when the weather and water shape up...
Siwash
04-06-2006, 11:23 AM
Maybe a local could tell you better since I haven't been down there recently myself, but I think it takes quite a bit to muddy up the north fork. The hydrograph posted for the Winchester gauge only shows a couple slight bumps over the past week: N. Umpqua @ Winchester (http://waterdata.usgs.gov/or/nwis/uv/?site_no=14319500&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060)
Even if the local tribs are blown-up, that may not be enough to turn the bigger river unless it's sustained for at least a day or two.
no mud and the water was perfect. As we drove up (4/1/06 and stayed through 4/5/06) the water got clearer and clearer and even though all the creeks and other rivers between PDX and Steamboat where trashed- the N Ump was in perfect condition. You should've gone up to the fly water.
MattyFlavor
04-07-2006, 01:13 PM
Plem... thanks for the kick in the head... I appreciate it!
D'OH!
sorry- buddy of mine got 4 yesterday across from "The Narrow Tavern". Not the fly water stretch, but they're movin up stream finally- evidently this whole water temperature thang really is a big deal after all.
No kick in the head- the Metolius and N Ump really don't blow out- color might matter, but temp is a way bigger deal this time of year.
gimmeumpqua
04-08-2006, 06:01 PM
Hmmm...OK, who wants to head to the fly water tomorrow?...although actually Plem, are your friends sure these weren't downriver fish? It's been awfully slow up there...
Kurt