I've been back up the crick for 3 days now and have fished every day, every chance I get. I have had one beautiful sunny day, in the 60's and one miserable day (not for fishing).
I'm going against some of the other local advice I am seeing on other reports.
On the warmer sunny day I saw it pop big time around noon. There were Skwala's, March Browns and Blue Wings all going at once. I saw no need for any nymphing and they didn't give a shit about a streamer (which I threw a lot). Heads up everywhere until about 3 or 4 pm, the real key was focusing on specific fish to see which type of bug they were eating. Good drifts were the key. On the warmer sunny days nymphing and streamers will be your game early and late. Once the hatch gets going its all dries.
Now the crap day....streamer heaven. I carried my dry fly / nymph rod and never even wet the line, there was no need. They were tuned into streamers. I'm sure they would have eaten a nymph but why nymph when they are eating meat right? Olive has been my go to and swinging produces tons of hits (very little landed by me but only because I suck at swinging streamers). Short slow strips landed me a ton of fish. The weather was cold and the wind was nasty, so the hatch was not all that. Like I said I'm sure I could have stuck a few on nymphs but would much rather chuck streamers. If I had hooked all my takes it was an easy 20+ fish day.
Today looks like it could be decent fishing with a high of 50 and partly cloudy. Thursday is looking sunny and warm again so get on the water by 11.
I'm up the crick fishing hard...runoff is coming any day now.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
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