It’s been pretty chilly in the mornings and feeling very much like fall.  The Mayflies have been coming off in really good numbers with the weather we’ve been having and the fishing has been excellent.  For Dries, BWOs, PMDs, hecubas, mahoganies, hoppers, ants, beetles, and caddis in the evening.  If you’re having any trouble wrangling’em on top, a hopper dropper rig has been working very well too. Drop a pheasant tail, red copper john, sparkle pupae, bubble back baetis, or hares ear underneath.  The streamer fishing has been heatin up as it’s been cooling down too, so bring a fist full of meat.  A standard wooly bugger in black, olive, or brown has been an excellent choice, but sparkle minnows, sparkle buggers, and sculpzillas are getting crushed too.

 

HATCHES: hoppers, BWOs, PMDS, Caddis, ants

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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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