Blackfoot Report – 9/22


The Blackfoot is running 488 cfs this morning and fishing well.  The cloud cover should do good things for you as some of the fall hatches begin to show up for real.  There are October caddis, drakes some mahoganies and still a bevy of terrestrials like hoppers, bees and ants.  The dryfly fishing is taking awhile to get going these days with the best of it being from about 10:30 until 3:30.  Nymphing on either side of that continues to be productive. With the lack of wind on tap today, though, you should have no problem getting it done on the surface.  We like #14 royal Wulffs and generic mayfly stuff like para Adams, a variety of medium sized hoppers with deep p-tail droppers and black foam ants.  Subsurface beaded thorax stoneflies with rubber legs in tandem with a red San Juan have been working too.

BLACKFOOT RIVER FLOW AT BONNER