joesnuffy said:
I'm going to try and hit the johnday somtime in November or december. I think vetrans day weekend I'm going down to Hells Canyon to give it a shot.
I hooked and fought my biggest 'Bow in an Eastern OR river, in Hell's Canyon in a section called Walker's Drift. In memory of a friends brother who passed. He used to murder 8 pound trout every winter, and the Christmas day of last year I hooked up with monster weighing in at close to 10 pounds, and just absolutely enormous. It took my 5 wt. for a ride! We were drifting a modified GB Skunk. Little different all around, but very similar in design. Winter is the time for big fish on the John Day, and the Canyon hosts some of the best fly fishing I have ever been a part of in Oregon.