Day 8 - 9.23.2022 Kootenai River Part 3

Here is the better part of the day report. I used my switch rod all day throwing 350 grain skagit short head with a 10’ clear sinking poly leader. 

The patterns I would use was a good ole #12 brown tungsten soft hackle. These fish where holding in 2-4 FOW (feet of water).  The one fish is a Columbia Redband Trout, and the other fish was a Whitefish and both took the swung soft hackle. 

The Kootenai was under 7000 cf/s and had several sections that where very wadable, but that current is swift and one must be very wary of that!

We are headed to the Helena area in the AM tommorow for our last days of vacation!