Fishing Conditions

This brown trout(the top picture) I caught in the C&R area those rainbows and browns in their really like those little eggs. 45 CFS and slowly falling. The water is clear and the dry fly fishing is wonderful right now. Beetles, ants, hoppers, crackle backs, caddis, Griffiths gnats, adams, and stimulators, have all been effective this week. 9' 7X leaders work best when fishing small dries, 16's and smaller, still getting away with 9'6X leaders on the bigger drys, and most nymphs. If you want to fish a nymph hard to beat a scud or a sow bug right now, # 16 and small smaller are best. To fish a scud properly right now it is probably best to use an indicator, fish the scud about 18to 30 inches below the indicator and you want to add a number six split shot about 8 inches above your nymph to help keep it down, fish this combination right in the faster water as it drops over a baffle you can catch fish all day long doing this best thing to do is keep moving around do not stand in one spot forever. Generally, you can step up to a spot like that then hook one or two pretty quickly after that it gets a little slower. If you see lots of fish, you might change to a different nymph catch one or two more or just move on and come back through later with a different fly. You can fish most nymphs in this manner. Small woolly buggers have been very effective this week black, olive, and ginger have all been good colors. Good nymphs to use right now, are Scuds, pheasant tails, burlaps, hares ears, and copper John's, have all been pretty effective, small zebra midges will catch fish pretty much every day right now you will fish them just like I described Fishing the scud. Small egg patterns, and thread jigs have also been pretty effective fish will eat an egg most of the year and the thread jigs are very effective as they sit under an indicator perfectly situated to hook a fish Site fishing with marabou jigs is extremely effective right now. If you're using a spinning rod, spinning reel, you will need to be using 2 pound line right now to have any real success. First thing in the morning you can get away with 4 pound for a little while, but that doesn't last long and you will then need to move to a reel with 2 pound line if you want to catch fish the remainder of the day. Best color for marabou jigs this week seem to be black/yellow, white, olive green, and ginger. Micro jigs, woolly bugger, jigs, and Maribou jigs work really really good when the water is this clear. The natural fish, oil, salmon, eggs, and the shrimp salmon eggs are the most fun you can have using plastic baits this time of year you use a really tiny hook little or no weight. Throw the egg up into the faster water coming over the baffles and wait for the fish to run off with it. It's a lot of fun. You are basically site fishing with a piece of plastic but it's fun and it's very effective. Plastic worms, also work very well when the water is low and clear again you will use little weight probably a B or a BB is all you will need we are still using number 10 or number 12 hooks. You can go smaller sometimes it works better, but you don't have to most times the best color on worms this week was pink, pink and white orange, cheese yellow, and a very light colored green. Rooster tails will work every morning for about 30 minutes maybe 40 minutes, the best colors this week seemed to be black and the skunk but I did have some people catching them on the bumblebee rooster tail, a lot of times I don't think colors is as big a deal, how you fish it is, most people fish them way too fast. I think you need to slow down in the mornings and fish a rooster tail or any other spinner just fast enough to keep the blade turning. I did have a couple of good reports of people catching some nice trout in zone three on nightcrawlers last week if you need nightcrawlers or any other live bait the closest place to the park to get this is Sportsmans corner where 76,86 intersect with 112 5 miles north of the park Good luck hope everybody catches lots of fish this week