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This morning we got up at daylight and headed to the river in hopes of timing this perfect. We had seen a bunch of nymphs on the banks a couple days ago and that usually means adults are close. This is about 10 days early but this year has been a weird water year.
It was nice and cool when we got to the river but the forecast was calling for 70 today. Plenty warm enough to activate the hatch.
Kicking over rocks there were nymphs all over the bank. As we floated further downstream we anticipated seeing shucks and hoped to see adults.
I decided to start off nymphing with a double stonefly rig. I picked up a couple early on including this beauty of a rainbow.
Dave also got into a couple on the Bitch Creek.
As the morning went on, the fishing actually slowed down. We also never got out of the cloud cover and temps stayed cool.And while we did see some shucks, there were no adults. We did fish dries but not even a look. We chalked it up to the cooler weather and a river that is dropping hard.
Over the next week I will be blowing off all responsibilities and chasing this hatch. Tomorrow is going to be super windy but I'm going to head back Wed. When this thing is good, it is about as fun as you can have chasing trout.
Who here has fished a salmon fly hatch? Even better, who hasn't?
It was nice and cool when we got to the river but the forecast was calling for 70 today. Plenty warm enough to activate the hatch.

Kicking over rocks there were nymphs all over the bank. As we floated further downstream we anticipated seeing shucks and hoped to see adults.


I decided to start off nymphing with a double stonefly rig. I picked up a couple early on including this beauty of a rainbow.

Dave also got into a couple on the Bitch Creek.

As the morning went on, the fishing actually slowed down. We also never got out of the cloud cover and temps stayed cool.And while we did see some shucks, there were no adults. We did fish dries but not even a look. We chalked it up to the cooler weather and a river that is dropping hard.

Over the next week I will be blowing off all responsibilities and chasing this hatch. Tomorrow is going to be super windy but I'm going to head back Wed. When this thing is good, it is about as fun as you can have chasing trout.
Who here has fished a salmon fly hatch? Even better, who hasn't?