Great Dry Fly Fishing

[Troutgod1]

Got to the river early this morning and found I was short on tippet, ran to the fly shop just outside the park.

Got some 7X and some flies, black beetles, cracklebacks, copper johns, and some pheasant tails.

I fished in zone 2 started just below the F hwy bridge, started catching fish right away, I started with a

#12 olive bead head bugger, and caught 4 or 5 on the bugger, the rain started so back to the fly shop

talked to the guy behind the counter, it was very busy, I guess everybody else was getting in out of the

rain also, I found out from talking to the fellow that drys were really good in the afternoons and that I should

probably fish buggers and nymphs while it was raining, so the rain let up and I went back to the river, started again

just below the F hwy bridge, put on a beetle, it was about 11:00a.m. and the fun started, I had at least 20 fish rise

to the beetle, but only hooked and landed 4 of them, but it was almost nonstop action on the beetle untill I got to

the hadicap dock down in #3 campground, here I started to use the cracklebacks and did well on them caught

2 or 3 one was almost 19" and several were in the 15" range.

The trout were midging everywhere, so I put on a #14 elk hair caddis and put a zebra midge 18" or so on

behind the caddis and started catching fish again, in the riffles. I hooked a trout just below the handicap dock that would have

gone at least 20" but I didn't have it on long, it looked like it might have been a brown trout.

I put the beetle back on and started catching fish again regulary till about 3:00 when I quit and went home, had a good day of

fishing landed over 30 trout and was really glad I had a good 7X tippet, I still lost several flies but it was worth it.

Water was low and clear, hardly any wind at all today.

[BFTMASTER]

We were down there on Wed. and Thursday. 7x a must. Should have caught many more fish than i did , but the bite was very light and my reflex timing a little slow. They pick it up a spit it out before I could even think. Dry flies worked good, if you cast them across the river to the shady spots on the opposite bank. I caught several on Glo balls, but after a few bites, the fuzz would start to part and expose the hook, then lots of looks, no bites. All in all, the weather is perfect right now and the fish are cooperating, if your reflexes are.

[Paola Cat]

Troutgod ..... Well done. Moving through Zone #2. I've had decent success on a #16-18 tan elk hair caddis and then follow it up with an olive mohair leech after they quit hitting the EHC. Targeting pods of active fish. The water is low and gin clear. A couple of weeks ago they hit the olive crackleback pretty good. My buddy has done well on a foam beetle also. If you can live with snapping a few off ..... the 7X is the way to go. PC

[tippett7]

Were you dead drifting the mohair leech under an indicator or were you stripping it?

[Paola Cat]

Were you dead drifting the mohair leech under an indicator or were you stripping it?

I was stripping it pretty fast on 6X. PC