Aug 8 - 10 Fishing Report

[DoveTail]

Quite a few people but you could find some areas to get your drifts and cast in. Most would clear out in the heat of the day and load the stream back up in the late evening.

Fishing was fair, enough to keep you entertained. It seemed they were either going BIG or SMALL, not much in between. Big dries in #10 got quite a few hits. I could see trout taking some tiny on the surface and threw #26 to #20 to them and no takers in every style I had. When the big flies were thrown, they would take it.

Under the surface midge in about every color worked. Slow but there was action. Sow bugs seemed to be the ticket in dark colors. #18 were the best. Eggs were slow but did produce with some stone flies.

I noticed some using large streamers were getting some consistent hits. Thread jigs and eggs did produce well for others.

The cool water felt good to keep the warm temps regulated. No pics, too hot to load a camera.

[rcguy]

Thanks for the report. Very interesting. Maybe a dry and a dropper? or hopper and dropper?

[DoveTail]

I was trying a hopper / dropper and that combo didn't work very well. The usual things were off and not producing. Not sure why but trout are trout and will always feed on something. It seems the sow bugs were the meal ticket recently, although about every fly did produce some hits, just not the every cast as a hot fly will do.