New fishing Report

[Sam Potter]

Fishing Report April 25, 06

The river is back to just about normal for this time of year. It was just running about 50% before we received rain this week. We had about 3 inches in two days, but they didn't get that much south of here. The color of the river is just a little cloudy, not much but noticeable. We were expecting it to be more off color this morning, but it wasn't. Bug activity today, wasn't what it was 5 days ago, but the cool rainy weather may have something to do with that. The forecast is for more rain and a lot cooler.. down in the 30s tonight. The temperature dropped a lot this afternoon. We had a pretty good day, not great, but the weather cooperated, it stayed cloudy most of the day and we had the stream to ourselves until about 2:00. I would say we ( my good friend Tom and I ) caught about 20-25 fish today. We didn't find any one particular fly that worked all the time, but the olive/brown caddis emerger, size 16 seemed to do better than most. We caught them on caddis dry flies, softhackles and the olive emerger below an indicator. We even tossed some bunnies, but didn't catch a fish on them. The stream is in excellent condition to fish right now.