Friday, July 1, 2011

A couple of trips.


There wasn't much of a hatch or dry fly action 10 days ago despite two of us fishing hard for 3 hours. There were a few trout working a ladybug hatch, something we hadn't seen before and couldn't match. The good news was that we caught fish everywhere on indicators. Lots of rainbows and one 19" brown loved Jumbo JuJus, red chironomids, and soft hackle calebaetis. It was the same story last Friday with very nice Father-Son clients on a college graduation trip. We were in the rainbows and atlantic salmon all morning, and when the wind came up, we had a pretty good kokanee bite wind-drifting baetis nymphs behind buggers. Hopefully, trapping 70,000 chub last year will mean more of a baetis hatch and some good dry fly action coming up. Tight lines - Jeff