[Brian in OR.]

Love the streamer thread but lets not forget about the Dry fly action... Love seeing heads pop up for size 20 BWO...

 

[Out of Here]

Intense hatch on the Yakima this afternoon!

 

[jasmillo]

I'll hop in. Caught these last weekend on Rock Creek. Dry fly fishing was fantastic Friday but slowed a bit when I went back Sunday. These were not the biggest fish of the trip but amongst the prettiest. I believe all these were on 18-20 BWO paraduns.

 

[Ron McNeal]

I'll hop in. Caught these last weekend on Rock Creek. Dry fly fishing was fantastic Friday but slowed a bit when I went back Sunday. These were not the biggest fish of the trip but amongst the prettiest. I believe all these were on 18-20 BWO paraduns.

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Wow! Well-done photo work on those beauties.

 

[spadebit]

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Intense hatch on the Yakima this afternoon!

The spots on that! Great looking fish.

 

[Bob Triggs]

We've been having some sweet, balmy, autumn days on the saltchuck. When the water gets glassy, I like to use skating caddis, muddlers, stimulators, October caddis, etc. Sea-run coastal cutthroat trout will definitely take a dry fly in saltwater. And drag is rarely a problem. In fact, sometimes a little drag and twitch is the one thing that will get you a bite.

 

[Out of Here]

18" Yakima Westslope on a Size 16 Purple Haze today. The OC's, Mahogany and BWO's are kicking right now.

 

[John Parker]

Little Red
EHC #16
First fish on a dry with my Circa 389

 

[dfg]

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Intense hatch on the Yakima this afternoon!

We had one yesterday afternoon as well. For about half an hour the shallow water along the rocks was practically boiling. That was pretty much the extent of the bite for most of the day. After having read this post before leaving in the morning, I couldn't bring myself to toss nymphs.

 

[Golden Trout]

Contained to stream fishing, not. Stillwater trout feast on the last of the chironomids and yea to the wind-blown hoppers!

 

[dfg]

I was wondering whether the frenzy was for emergers.

 

[MrP]

Even the world's greatest freshwater sportfish will take a dry fly sometimes. They will even let me get it on video sometimes too.

 

[Kyle Smith]

I haven't done that well this fall, but yesterday was pretty good.

 

[Batt B]

I thought about chasing BWOs, but since I didn't get to fish much this summer, I went up to some of @Old Man 's small skinny water for some solitude. Fishing was great; catching was so-so. Hatches included mayflies, stoneflies, and termites.

 

[freestoneangler]

October Caddis are showing up here. Walked my out the backdoor stream Sunday early evening and caught some for feeding lane tests. Only 1 of the 3 were hammered (at least in the length of stream I could see)... in baseball, that's considered great. Those I caught were size 10-12, in light cinnamon.

 

[Mike22]

After half-heartedly chasing a couple different streamers, this one took an EHC. Right around 19".

 

[Old Man]

I thought about chasing BWOs, but since I didn't get to fish much this summer, I went up to some of @Old Man 's small skinny water for some solitude. Fishing was great; catching was so-so. Hatches included mayflies, stoneflies, and termites.
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This is some nice looking skinny water. But where I used to fish Skinny water there wasn't any trees around. Well in Washington there was.

 

[Batt B]

This is some nice looking skinny water. But where I used to fish Skinny water there wasn't any trees around. Well in Washington there was.

That's what I meant. Your old old stomping grounds!

 

[dryflylarry]

A little dryfly action for me around October 1 in Idaho. 18 and 20" rainbows on size 20 Mahogony Sparkle Dun. Two of them caught in one foot of water. That's some fun stuff right there!

 

[Fishnow]

Thought I'd revive this thread from a couple of months ago to get some fishing on the front page. Went to the river cabin at lunch today and fish were rising so I pushed my boat out of the slip and casted them , after a couple of refusals this 17" brown took the 22 dry. Last Saturday at 1pm the rainbows were much more eager landing 5 of 5 takes before the hatch ended in less than an hour