Fishing Report

Sunny, with a high near 76. Light and variable wind becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
The rains have helped fishing quite a bit! We have clear to stained conditions area wide. The larger creeks (West Fork, North Fork etc) will still be showing a good stain, while smaller creeks and tributary creeks will be clear.
Fishing has been excellent subsurface with a Werthers, surrender jigs, and brush hogs cleaning up. We’re tying these below a hippie stomper or amy’s ant. While the surface fly is not getting a ton of hits, it is still worth using these ‘edible indicators’.
In the evenings we are seeing sporadic rising fish that are eating emergers (film starts and klinkhammers) and larger (size 12-14) parachutes.
Creeks are clear to stained with temperatures in the high 50s to low 60s.

Sunny, with a high near 75. Breezy, with a west wind 8 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph.
About half an inch of rain last night didn’t do anything to change the creeks. In the lower sections and on larger waters, creeks will have some heavy stain and mud. Up higher and on the tributaries we had clear to slightly stained conditions that will start to clear up quite a bit more as the day goes on. In other words, we have some excellent post rain conditions!
In the murky water, leeches, san juan worms, and larger scuds are very effective. In the clear stuff we are fishing a hippie stomper with a bead head below through the day, and switching over to mayfly emergers in the evenings (purple and brown).
Hatches are sparse but include sulphurs, yellow sallies, tan caddis, and very few larger mayflies.

Showers and thunderstorms likely before 1pm, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm between 1pm and 4pm, then showers likely after 4pm. Temperature rising to near 66 by 9am, then falling to around 60 during the remainder of the day. Breezy, with a light northwest wind increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 38 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
The rains last night dropped from 1.5 to 2 inches on average area wide. West of the Mississippi got a bit more. While our creeks will be murky this morning, they will drop and clear out fairly quickly giving us stained water this afternoon and evening, and clear to stained tomorrow.
In the stained water, think big. Fish larger scuds, squirmy wormies, leeches streamers, and pink squirrels.

A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 3pm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. High near 83. East wind 8 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.
Creeks are clear to slightly stained with temperatures in the high 50s to low 60s.
What we are waiting to see is what happens tonight. The remnants of tropical storm Cristobal are headed our way. Initially we were forecasted for 4 inches of rain, but the storm has weakend significantly as it makes its way up here. So, tonight we will get some rain, and some may be locally heavy. We will keep you posted.
Fishing has been quite good lately with fish happily eating subsurface through the morning and into the mid day (We are still fishing a hippie stomper or cheeto beetle with a bead head below). In the evening time fish are taking dries very well, especially film stars and klinkhammers.

Sunny, with a high near 89. Light south wind increasing to 9 to 14 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.
Hot and breezy today, and some heavy rains from the tropical storm blowing up into the area tomorrow.
Despite the unseasonably hotter weather and water temps (clear to stained with temps in the low to mid 60s), fishing still remains solid! We’re seeing fish rising to midges and emergers at first light (use a film star in purple), then we are switching over to a hippie stomper or chubby chernobyl with a dropper during the day. The evening has fish rising again to sulphurs, sallies, and some larger mayflies. Our guides have had their best evening success twitching size 12/14 parachutes in the shin deep water below riffles for rising fish!

A 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5pm. Sunny, with a high near 86. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph.
Creeks are clear to slightly stained with temperatures in the high 50s to low 60s.
The hot weather lately has water temperatures up a bit, make sure you are fishing early and late and seeking out shade whenever possible.
We’re still seeing our June bug soup. While hatches have not been heavy everywhere, we are seeing caddis, craneflies, sulphurs, a few larger mayflies (size 12 adams and size 12 brown parachute hatches!) midges and terrestrials are being eaten on the surface.
Subsurface fishing has been best on brush hogs, poutine, zebra midges and thread frenchies.

Guide service is back and running and we will be opening the shop’s front doors to a limited number of customers at a time starting Saturday!!!!

Sunny, with a high near 83. Northwest wind 3 to 7 mph.
Rains hit hard and fast last night dropping up to an inch of rain (south of us got hit with up to 2+). Luckily, thing soaked in and started clearing up quickly leaving many of our smaller creeks clear to slightly stained this morning.
The rain will have cooled down water temperatures a bit, after yesterdays 90 degree weather, temps were pushing into the 60s. Today expect mid to high 50s.
Caddis, craneflies, and some lighter colored mayflies are hatching, especially in the evenings. During the day we are fishing our standby hippie stomper with a bead head dropper (check the highlighted flies below for one of our hot bugs right now!)
On the cloudy water leeches and squirmy wormies.

Sunny, with a high near 90. Heat index values as high as 96. West wind 5 to 10 mph
Creeks are low and clear with temperatures in the mid to high 50s.
Yesterday was incredibly windy which means the hatches were blown about and fish were not rising well. Luckily the subsurface fishing made up for it! Bug wise, there have not been any super thick hatches lately but sporadic caddis, lighter colored mayflies and craneflies have fish rising here and there. The terrestrial bit is picking up! Ants, beetles, and attractors such as hippie stompers (orange) and training wheels (orange, yellow and purple royal) are getting some aggressive eats especially in shaded areas. Dropping a thin bodied bead head nymph or smaller scud below these has been excellent, especially mid day.
We’re in a summer type rythym right now. Early on fish will eat midges and some mayfly spinners, then when the sun hits the water around 10 they will switch to subsurface and opportunistically feed on terrestrials and attractors. In the evening, the hatches get fish looking up again.

Practice good social distancing on the water. The Centers for Disease Controlrecommends staying six feet apart from others. We’re taking it a step farther — we’re asking anglers to stay a rod’s length apart from their fishing partners whenever possible. The standard fly rod is nine feet long.

Wear a multi-layered face covering when in the vicinity of other anglers. Even a double-layered cloth mask can help slow the spread of the virus.

Avoid fishing from a boat with someone you haven’t been in lock-down with. In other words, if they’re not family, don’t fish from a boat with them — it’s just not possible to practice social distancing while in a drift boat.

Drive to the river separately to get to the angling destination.

Stay local, if at all possible, to limit exposure to others, and limit others’ exposure to you.