REPORT:
Water temps are moving upward and the unrelenting sun have the fish hunkering down on the Clark Fork midday these days. You can tag a few every now and then, but it’s not the feeding frenzy we’ve been enjoying on this river lately . . .at least not during the heat of the day. The evening caddis hatch remains spectacular and is providing some of the best fishing of the day. PMDs and opportunistic feeding on attractors will keep the surface action pretty good from daybreak until about 1. You can stretch another hour of consistency but going subsurface from 1 until about 2, but then it’s VERY tough until evening.
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HATCHES: golden stones, drakes, PMDs, caddis, hoppers on the warm afternoons.
FLIES: Big button emergers or parachute patterns, standard stonefly attractor junk with 18″ droppers. Big prince nymphs, Peacock double beads, Griffith’s gnats and zebra midges on sunny days, slow moving crystal buggers or bunny junk in #8s that’re peach or yellow, double dutch skwala, size 18 adams or purple haze.
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