Went fishing on the Oatka with my father-in-law and my friend Will.  Water levels were high but they were on there way down from several days of rain.  At 3.1 in height and 250 cfps the water had a brown tint but was clear enough to see the bottom in most places.

We thought we would try beatles and found only rising fish would take them along the banks.  There were not a lot of risers but Will caught one nice 16″ brown this way.  Most of the fish were taken with either nymphs or streamers.  Other than Will’s none of them had any size.  We only fished from 11am to 3pm.  I think if we had more time we would have dialed into some larger fish.  Regardless it was a very nice way to spend an afternoon on July 4th.