 Beginning in April, once a week we will post a brief description of a rig we saw during the previous week that had one of our Kingfisher stickers on the window. When you recognize it as being your car described in our hatch report, stop into the shop and pick out 2 dozen nymphs or dries on us! The River is dropping with the cooler days and nights we’ve been having. The flow on Rock Creek is around 600 cfs and should continue to drop. The best fishing today will be subsurface with nymphs and streamers. You might get a small window of dry fly fishing with skwalas and March browns. If these start to pop, use a size 14 or 16 parachute adams or purple haze for the March browns. Use a rogue skwala for the stone flies. Outside of these dries, the nymphs on the menu will be Pheasant tails, Pat’s rubber legs, fast water princes, regular princes, flashback copper johns, San Juan worms and dark double beaded stones. For streamers, with the higher flows, heavy darker bodied streamers work best with the low clarity. Keep your rigs close to the bank in these excessive flows. The fish displace here to avoid the strong currents and extra work.
Browns Lake is iced off, open and fishing well. However, the private land owners surrounding Browns Lake are now enforcing there NO trespass rights. All the bank fishing with the exception of the public land at the south and east sides of the lake is now closed to walking. We have provided a map showing the property lines and places to legally access the lake. The boundaries highlighted with green are open to the public.
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| FLIES: Smaller nymphs, small orange egg pattterns, red San Juans OTHER INFO: |
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Rock Creek Fishing Report – 4/21
