Fishing Report
Water generation has still been very consistant with the projection. We have had a lot of days this last week with little or no generation, giving us much more wading time. Fishing has been pretty good overall. During the day with the bright sun conditions, if you size down to smaller flies and lighter tippets and fish shallower water or seams the bites will pick up for you. Also I always recommend fluorocarbon tippet.
The flies that have been working for us the best are:
Scuds: in small 16-20’s grey or brown
WD-40’s in olive or grey
For those who like to strip and not use a indicator try:
soft hackles in olive and brown
south platte brassies in copper or green
For streamer fans : Try stripping sculpins off the bottom, but be sure to use 4X tippet
For those wanting to fish some dries the beetles are good and also the grasshoppers with or without a dropper.
Almost on all of the guided trips here lately, we have been getting at least one good twenty inch plus fish. The other day I had some of my favorite clients out in the boat, a couple of young guys Tanner and Nicholas. They were catching some nice fish. Great Kids to fish with, almost never a break off and really well behaved boys. Always look forward to taking them fishing. Caught a bunch of fish too. Tanner had caught a nice 17″ fish with us last time for his big catch of the day. We have his picture on the big fish board in the store. So I think this time Nicholas was trying to top that one or just get on the board and did he ever. He hooked and landed a 21 1/2″ rainbow that was just beautiful. I think I heard him say that was the biggest trout he has ever caught. He handled the fly rod great. Did a perfect job letting the fish run when it wanted to and taking up line to keep the slack out. We had some great scenery that day also. We had two bald eagles and a golden eagle watching the boys catch fish. The boys had several double hook ups and I don’t think we broke off a fly.
