He put up a decent fight for his size, and after a short battle, I put him back in the water. Sure enough on the first cast I managed to land an odd looking little brown. I tied on a small mayfly emerger, as the fish were sipping off the surface, and I figured the pattern would draw some attention. I had arrived at about 6pm, and there was a decent hatch going on. I watched as 5-7 Brown Trout of varying sizes, started rising to primarily terrestrials and caddis. I made my way over to a nice pool that I discovered last week, and took a seat to watch for risers. I had just picked up my new Orvis Superfine Touch 7” 3wt (expect a review here soon) and wanted to put it to the test with some dry flies. I didn’t bother with many pictures, as most of these guys were under 12″:Īfter a drawn out day at work, I slipped over to one of my favorite streams. I took most of the fish that I caught on a size 14 sulfur dun pattern, it seemed to draw a fish to it just about every other cast, so I didn’t bother mixing it up too much. I didn’t catch anything too big, but I’ve always found dry fly fishing to be so much more satisfying than nymphing.
The action really picked up on the dries. There was a mahogany and sulfur dun hatch, as well as quite a few caddis flying around. Here are some of them:Īs the day turned into evening, a nice hatch was going on, so I switched over to dries. Nothing monstrous, or brag worthy, but there were quite a few nice fish. The afternoon was productive and I brought quite a few browns and rainbows to my net. I spent a lot of time working some nice little pools like this: There were only a couple other people on the stretch of the river, so thankfully I was able to make my way up and down stream unabated. The sun was out and about throughout the day, so I spent most of the morning and afternoon nymphing under an indicator. That being said, I had very good luck with black stonefly and copper john zebra nymphs, using a small caddis pupa as a dropper. Turning over some rocks revealed a pretty decent prevalence of stone fly nymphs, that as well as the rocks are absolutely covered in stonefly shell casings. I found myself pulling in fish after fish nearly anywhere I was on the river. One of my favorite sections for big rainbows.Įven in the middle of July, the fishing here is great.
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