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 noon to about 4:00 each day. The midge clusters are small but are very productive, we have been using #20-#22. The blue winged olives are hatching from 1:30 to about 3:30 each day and much heavier on the cloudy days. Trout are rising everyday even on the sunny days. Nymph fishing has been awesome with small sowbugs and midge pupa patterns. I have been using an epoxy back gray sowbug #18 & #20 with a zebra midge, #20 & #22, as the dropper for most of the day. Streamer fishing has been good casting streamer to the bank, black and other dark streamers patterns have been doing well. The boat traffic has been very light for the nice weather we are experiencing right now. The warm weather has started run-off and pocket creek below the bighorn club. I would spend most of my day above the club as there is some discoloring on the east side of the river. pg