This was a very pleasurable half day float with excellent company. Vaughn caught fish on small nymphs. Deb was mostly sight seeing and taking photos with occasional fishing where she caught and lost a couple fish. What a nice relaxing laid back day.

Marty

Brett, Craig, Dan and Marty were on the river with clients on the 3rd. All the boats had a great day fishing with Goldenstones on top and Caddis with small nymphs either as trailers or double small nymphs using PMD, Caddis, and Sally nymphs. Many of our fishermen and women were just learning flyfishing for their first or second time and really did well. What a great day and then the day after was awesome too. Flows were fairly low still with the bite happening more in the riffles, and the middle.

Then on July 4th, the slay factor continued to be waaaay up!!! Epicness has settled over us

for the brown and rainbows have been submissive to the dry! My buddy, John, from my home in PA came out yesterday for a couple of weeks and we went straight to the river. Lyons to Windy last night. Wow… Slayage!  John fished the big dry while I rowed, and he just let ‘em have it! Lyons out the gate was exceptional with the golden stone, with the softie peasant tail picking up the slack in the back. I watched John absolutely slaughter it while I tried to keep up with the net and boat. Epic….be right back…followed by Chip and MaryRose with Marty having a great experience with both dries and wets. Yahoo!

Young Dan and Nancy

What an incredible and special day! Everyone from our shop started off early between
7:00 and 8:00 AM.

The afternoons have been getting so hot, we strongly recommend that for the fishermen and women and for the fish. The salmon flies are further up the river now with still very low flows. Caddis are everywhere in a big way. Below the Salmon Flies are Goldenstones, Yellow Sallies, and more Caddis. The bug hatches continue to be huge. Pulsing will begin in a day or two to add cooler water to the river. Get out early if you can.

We had three groups out today that all had fishing days to write home about. The Upper river was mostly on dries with Salmon Flies and Golden Stones. Further down river folks switched out to Caddis, and Yellow Sally dries and Caddis and Yellow Sally and Stonefly nymphs. When switching to nymphs, lately, two smaller nymphs seemed to do better with an emerger pattern as the trailer or an emerger below the big dry.

We passed by a family combining recreational floating with fishing. Looks like fun! Wear a swim suit if you can to cool off in the river. The fish are biting and still seem to be where there is more water. What a great time and special experience for everyone. Get out and fish!  Nancy