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Sunny, with a high near 41. Breezy, with a southwest wind 15 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Today is the last windy day. After this, things calm down quite a bit. It is getting just warm enough to melt snow on the banks of the creeks, but not enough to runoff and make them muddy. Overall creeks are clear and flowing well.
Pay attention to water temperature! You want to fish as water temperature climbs. Once the snowmelt starts to trickle into the creeks it will drop temperatures causing fishing to shut down.
We are seeing midges, winter stoneflies, and even some BWOs hatching mid day. Fishing the size 20 user friendly has been deadly on the surface lately!
Subsurface fishing is best on smaller, thin bodied bugs such as perdigons and spanish bullets. Do not neglect small streamers and leeches as they can get some larger fish to eat this time of year!

Mostly sunny, with a high near 44. Southwest wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable.
Creeks are clear and flowing well. Fishing remains good in the later morning through the afternoon. Once the snowmelt hits the creeks things slow down to shut down completely.
So far, the melting has not been intense enough to muddy things up leaving creeks clear to slightly stained.
Midges and winter stoneflies are around daily, and the chance for rising fish is high right now.
Subsurface fishing is solid on midge larvae, and picking up on larger patterns like scuds and pink squirrels.
Leeches and streamers can be very effective right now, especially in the lower and slower sections of the creeks.

Regular morning hours tomorrow (Saturday) and Monday starts 7 days a week for the shop being open!

A 20 percent chance of rain after 5pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 41. Breezy, with a south wind 10 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
This weather has been just about perfect for fishing. It isn’t getting warm enough to melt the snow and make things muddy and icy and the overnight temperatures are cold enough to lock snow melt back up.
You still have to fish before the melt hits the creeks. Rising water temperatures are perfect this time of year (and they have been hitting the magic 40 degree mark the past couple of days on some creeks) but once the snow starts to trickle in and drop temperatures, things shut down quickly.
There are some hatches of midges and winter stoneflies daily. It might take some time to find pods of rising fish, but they are out there.
More consistently, fishing heavy nymphs and scuds or leeches is catching fish.

A chance of drizzle and snow before 11am, then a slight chance of snow between 11am and noon. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 37. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
The last two days we have seen some snow melting. The creeks are not muddy, however make sure you watch water temperature, when enough snowmelt hits the creeks and drops the water temperature, fishing shuts down!
Midges and winter stoneflies are hatching pretty much daily at this point. They aren’t thick everywhere, but make sure you have some good dry patterns ready just in case.
Most trout are eating subsurface on spanish bullets, ice cream cones, and other heavily weighted nymphs. Leeches and smaller streamers twitched through the holes are also working incredibly well right now.

Partly sunny, with a high near 11. Wind chill values as low as -9. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning.
Cold string continues all week long. Fishing is not recommended and can actually be harmful to trout (not to mention you and your gear!).

How winter weather impacts trout.

A slight chance of snow between 2pm and 3pm. Mostly cloudy and cold, with a high near 4. Wind chill values as low as -16. West wind 9 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Tonight Partly cloudy, with a low around -16. Wind chill values as low as -31. Northwest wind 7 to 11 mph.

Sunday Mostly sunny and cold, with a high near 1. Wind chill values as low as -31. Northwest wind 6 to 8 mph.

Sunday Night Mostly cloudy, with a low around -9. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.

Monday A 20 percent chance of snow after noon. Partly sunny, with a high near 6. Calm wind becoming north around 6 mph in the afternoon.

-10, -18, 1. These are temperatures during the next few days with windchill. Don’t go fishing.

We are not going to open the shop this Saturday, please call or e-mail with any questions etc.

Stay warm and safe!