The creek has been fishing well on these warm and sunny afternoons, but expect things to change dramatically in the major cool down that’s supposed to begin Sunday/Monday. Today and tomorrow should continue to be mahogany bliss, but as temperatures plummet next week, your dryfly options will become much more limited both in terms of patterns at time-frame. For now, though, parachutes in darker colors, button emergers in 14s, comparaduns . . .all will work. The streamer fishing isn’t what it was a week ago, but it’s still pretty good using smaller and sparsely tied stuff like Clowsers. Subsurface is still the way to go for big numbers (and big fish lately too), and lots of trout and whities will like up to eat a variety of nymphs from George’s brown stone to olive p-tails in a broad size range. Roe colored eggs alongside a red San Juan is always a good bet this time of year too.
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