Roairng River Is Clearing And Still High

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Water is still high and clearing, very fishable now.

The fishing has been very good this past week, the water is dropping and looking better everyday. lots of good fish were caught this past week, dry fly fishing is getting better, some reports of fish being caught on beetles, ants, and elk hair caddis. I have been catching most of my fish on soft hackle or a pheasat tail/zebra midge dropper, most of my fish have been caught using a rig similar to this, I have been using a sink tip line and have been fishing the eddies and the tail end of the pools, I have been picking up several fish a morning.

Good nymphs to use in the water as it is clearing would be, the pheasant tail, copper john, brassis, sow bugs, and the prince nymphs would be good flys right now. Small baby buggers were good this week especially in the afternoons, the bigger buggers still worked fine in the morning.

The water is getting clearer everyday, so for now we can still get away with 4lb line, but this week or next week, the use of 3 and 2 lb line will probably be needed, the water is clearing that quick. There is still a good flow of water comming out of the cave, most of the runoff is finished, dry hollow is still running some but the water is clear.

Plastic baits are still working great, the orange, cheese yellow and the white worms worked all week, the powereggs in hatch brown, white and orange were good all week also.

Marabou jigs in black/yellow, olive, brown, and tan were all good this week.

Spoons like the little cleo, the kastmasters and just about any kind of small gold or slilver spoon has been catching alot of fish.

In Zone 3 most of the fish that are being caught on nightcrawlers and powerbait paste.

I caught 2 this moring on tricos down by the handicap dock in zone 2, there were a lot of trout rising on the far side, just couldn't get a good drift with the fast water between me and the trout.

I caught 3 more on a crackleback fished on a sinking line and fished like a soft hackle, I would cast up stream and let the river do all the work, I would let the water drag the fly down and it kept the line tight also, and when the trout hit they pretty much hooked themselves, not the most fun way to fish but it was effective this morning.