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PMD’s, caddis, yellow sallies

The water level is down to about 3500 cfs (give or take a couple) and we’ve been seeing phenomenal hatches of PMD’s, Yellow Sallies, and caddis. Fish are eating PMD spinners and Leftover Caddis pretty heavily in the morning. Look … Continue reading

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March Midges & Blue Winged Olives

The weather this March has been very unseasonably warm and the forecast is for more warm weather. We have been on the water the past few days and noticed the dry fly activity getting less predictable. The upper three miles … Continue reading

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March Midges

The midge fishing has been awesome the past two weeks. With the warmer weather forecast for this week the dry fly fishing should be some of the best of the season. The midges are coming of in large numbers from … Continue reading

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Streamer Time

The weather forecast is for cloudy weather and we all know what that means, streamer time. The browns and rainbows get very aggressive on cloudy days in the fall, it seems to triple the number of takes on the streamer. … Continue reading

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Pre spawn

The lake has turned over and the water temperature has dropped 10 degree in the last 17 days. Before the lake turned the temperature was 66 degrees at the afterbay dam and now is 56 degrees. The cooler water temperature … Continue reading

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Black Caddis

Black caddis are emerging about 12-1pm and going strong until about 5pm. A black caddis pupa fished just under the surface has been producing very well. We us a small white pinch-on indicator with a #18 ultra black caddis pupa … Continue reading

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A few notes from the ditch

She’s runnin’ big. The latest from USGS says 12,200 cfs and despite these higher flows fishing is outstanding. Nymphing with big worms (wine, red, chocolate, orange, 2tone, steel… whatever), large scuds (sizes 10 and 12) in pink and orange and … Continue reading

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The water is warming…

 …and the fish are happy. With the increase in flow (steady around 4,000 cfs) and warmer spring days water temp’s have soared to 42-45 and the trout are starting to spread out a little. Dry fly fishing has been great … Continue reading

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baetis baetis baetis

…and some midge and fish are eating them! It’s been a long spring without any dry fly fishing to speak of but that has changed in the last couple of days. There were a bunch of olive sailboats out there … Continue reading

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The latest…

Flows have gone up a little bit this past week, we’re currently running at about 3,000 cfs and it looks like it’ll remain steady. The dry fly fishing has been hit or miss with both midge and Baetis. Some days … Continue reading

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