Well  it has been quite some time since my last report so I will try and give a summary of what has happened on Falcon in Jan and Feb. First of all let me say that the word is out on Falcon and people are really starting to show up. My guide business is booming and I am busier now than before I retired. I am just coming off of 15 days straight and am really looking forward to some down time.

Fishing in Jan was difficult to say the least. Fish were moving up and back on a here today gone tomorrow pattern. From day to day we would have to search for the fish. That is not normal for Falcon (prior to the water rise) once you found them they were there most of the time. The river did not start the spawn as in most every other year. We found cold water in the river up until the end of January. I know a lot of folks spent a lot of money on fuel searching in the old places for January spawners and it was hard to find them. I lost my fish to the flooded cover as the water rose and did not see the point in looking for them until I heard from some reliable source that it was happening up river. I did not hear that until It was happening all over the lake. We had spawning fish in the Salanias the same time they spawned up river. So most of January was deep fishing for me.

February found us fighting North winds and cold water. The fish were trying to move shallow and the cold winds would drop the water temps over night and the fish would pull back out to the deep water. So I stayed deep most of the time aiming for the pre-spawn and post spawn fish. The full moon on the 9th seemed to make a big difference in the fishing and the fronts would come in but the fish could still be caught in the very little protected waters. There are so many people trying to fish that the limited protected fishable waters were getting pounded by fisherman. Something that never happened on Falcon before this year. At any rate I am content to just fish deep and let the chips fall where they may. I usually catch about 3 or 4 big fish a month and most of them are deep (18 to 25 feet). I think the weather will calm down and we are starting to see water temps stay in the 70’s. March will be the big month on Falcon. more to come…..