Rock Creek Fishing Report – 5/13


Guided fly Fishing TripsBeginning 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!  

Rock creek is still on the drop and clarity improving with a flow around 1300 cfs at the bottom.  The conditions are as good as they’re going to get be for the next couple weeks, so you better get it while you can before it turns to soup. Tandem nymph rigs and streamers are working best in the murky water.  Use San Juan worms, dark bodied double beaded stones, olive Pat’s rubber legs, prince nymphs, copper johns and pheasant tails for nymphs.  For streamers, big double bunnies, Dalai lamas, dark articulated bunnies, big buggers and sculpzillas.  With the higher flows it’s important to keep your junk tight to the banks and in any slack water you find up here.  When the current picks up like this, the fish move to areas that are less work for them.

If you own and iPad 1 or 2, we have 6 MFC original iPad covers to give away. The first people through the door get’em!!! If you come in with a kingfisher tattoo on your forehead you can have two!!!

 

 

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.

browns access

FLIES: Smaller nymphs, small orange egg pattterns, red San Juans OTHER INFO:

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