I knew the river would be a blown mess on Sunday but I just had to get out there. As I got to the river things did not look good, usually Id just get back in the car and come back when the river was in better shape, but I had nothing else to do so I thought Id give it a try anyway and see if I could hook something in the mud. I thought about some spots that would give me a good chance in the high water and decided to head up river. I got to my spot, and started fishing a back channel that was only inchs deep before the rain, but no luck. After this spot I moved into a deep slow flow and casted and retreive the biggest Koho spoon I had, but no luck there. After almost 3 hours and no fish, I went for a walk looking for a path where fish were moving. I came across a spot where I watched some fish passing through and just ahead of this spot there was a nice slow slick behind a boulder. I baited the hook with big gob of roe, set the float to 10 inchs, and started casting. 10 minutes later, float down and fish on. I beached the 8 lb wild hoe within a minute of being hooked, and now Im a believer of dirty water fishing.