Please see the previous report for a little background. Brushing the cobwebs aside and digging into our memory banks, we remember that last year, the fishing for big rainbows and browns from mid-September through October was the best we've seen in at least 12 years.

So far this year, that has not materialized. So now, digging even deeper into those memory banks, that great fall fishing usually didn't kick in until about this time in October, so last year was a welcome early arrival.

Yesterday, using the approach described in that previous report, we caught one 19" brown. But we did see more big fish than we have so far this fall and are hopeful ("if you ain't got hope, you ain't got noth'n") that this could be the early stages of the "Fall Run." We'll be out there today and later this week to see what happens.