With the warm weather forecast for the week, you can expect to see your first real window of dry fly fishing about to kick off soon. It’s still a little early for the skwalas to start popping up here, but the word on the street is they’ve been eating the random chubby if you work it.  The nemouras are out but the fishing with them has been just as spotty as the skwalas.  Your best bet by far is going to be nymphing until we really see some more consistent action up here.  For dries, bring some rogue skwalas, royal chubbies, bullet heads, tiny black stimulators, and midges.  For nymphing use double beaded stones, pat’s rubber legs, pheasant tails, Montana princes, dark micro stones, and little midge patterns.  The flow is hanging right around 270 cfs and is holding stable.  Enjoy the sunshine!

 

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Rock Creek is in a lot better shape, water temp wise, than the other area waters. But is still very low for this time of year. FWP has not enacted the hoot owl closures up here yet, but that could change as summer stumbles on. The dry fly fishing has been very good in the mornings and evenings, but the middle afternoon has been slow in the heat. For top water morning patters, use a parachute PMD, low riding yellow sally, or small goddard caddis. Hopper/dropper rigs during the afternoon is the ticket. There are caddis hatches in the evening, and golden stones, PMDs, and yellow sallies available during the rest of the day. For dry flies, use chubby Chernobyls, stimulators, bullet head stones, half downs, parachute adams, purple hazes, elk hair caddis, yellow sallies and para wulffs. For sub surface patterns use micro stones, pheasant tails, Pat’s rubber legs, San Juan Worms, caddis pupae, double beaded stones and batman nymphs.

 

HATCHES: Golden stones, BWOs, PMDS, yellow sallies, Caddis

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