The fishing has been good leading up to some recent rain events. The dry fly fishing has been good.
What We’re Seeing
Tricos in the morning are getting lots of fish up and looking. Trailing spent, drowned, and spinners behind a “sighter “dry has been productive. Sure, they will come up and eat the dry, but it is more to help you figure out where you’re in the film or subsurface fly is at amongst all the heads up. Later in the day dry drop as a searching pattern has been productive and keep looking for noses eating caddis. The nymphing and streamer fishing has been good as well. Smaller size, bugger type streamers have been moving fish.
The recent rains have the river colored up, but we are clearing and looking to pick up where we left off with the consistent good fishing. Waiting game at the moment and this dry weather this weekend will help. River levels are as follows- Reef, 500 cfs, Mile, 500 CFS, and Freemont is at 80 cfs.
The Reef and The Mile
The upper portion of the Reef does have a lot of weeds. Just must clean flies or fish higher in the water column (dry drop). As weeds die with cold, it will slowly clear. It is that time of year. The Mile has been fishing good as well. There has been fish in shallows and heads of runs. It has been fun fishing and look to it to continue to get better.
Wrap Up
All in all it has been a great transition from our summer fishing into early fall. Fall is one of our favorite and special times of the year on these fisheries. We would love to show our home turf. The schedule is getting full, but there are boats available. Give a call to the shop and we are always happy to help plan a trip. Get out there and have some fun while it is good!
HOT FLIES
DOUBLE STACK CHUBBY CHERNOBYL
These are great during hopper season and whenever you need a super buoyant dry for a heavier dry dropper rig.
GOULD DROWNED SPINNER TRICO
This is the perfect dropper/trailing fly below the double stack chubby.
THIN MINT JIG BUGGER
A new twist on one of the best streamers of all time- the Thin Mint now with a jig head bugger!
