Trout Source

CALIFORNIA

• Experience “epic” evening caddis on the Truckee
• Swing for rainbows and browns on the Trinity
• Don’t sweat the high flows on the Lower Sac
• Catch rainbows (or smolts?) on the Klamath
• Upper Sac has recovered from last week’s precip and fishing is good
• McCloud getting crowded, but afternoon/evening dry fly fishing still good
• Hex are on the Fall
• Hat Creek and the Pit seem to be doing well
• No reports on the Yuba, and only shad and stripers on the American and Feather
• Hopper season has started on Hot Creek
• Big Trico hatch on the Upper Owens
• Lots of wind lately on Hat Creek and the Fall and Truckee.

NATIONAL

Moby Dick (Au Sable, MI)
Bunch of haggard looking shop rats and stinky guides shuffling around the shop this morning. We’ve pursued our white whales for the last 3 weeks and have had a pretty darn great Hex year.

Hex-ual Healing (Au Sable, MI)

For others, there are still a few hex experiences that must be exorcised from the blood, and for these folks, they must become detectives, driving about swirling around the weeds for shucks, snooping about fly shops and bars for any tip they can get as to where the bugs are.  And they’ll have to travel across this county and then, when it’s exhausted around here, head north, as if chasing Heywood’s snowfly (possible cartoon: a desperate angler asking an Inuit if he’s “been seeing any big bugs”).

Dr. Phil (San Juan, NM)
Fishing; as life itself, sometimes carries its share of little disappointments… When you go from catching lots of fish on big foam imitations on one day, to struggling to see a fish the next, it can cause some severe psychological problems that even Dr. Phil would find hard pressed to cure.

Warhol? (White, AR)

Worth It (Bighorn, MT)
Algae continues to be a problem below Three Mile, but the good fishing makes it tolerable.

Wolf Kill (Yellowstone)

When The Day Is Done (Yellowstone)

A Good Day (McCloud/Bollibokka, CA)
Weather was great - not too hot, not too cold. Big rainbows and browns were caught and released. Cold beers were consumed. New skills were learned. No bears, cougars or rattlesnakes around this time. What more can I say ??? Private rivers kick ass.

Wind Vs. Bugs (Upper Delaware, NY/PA)
Well, I'd rather have lots of wind and lots of bugs than no wind and no bugs. We've had wind and we've had bugs the last day and a half and the fish are coming up for them. The wind has been pretty bad, but the you couldn't ask for any more bugs and fish.

Summer Setting In (Beaverkill, NY)
Hatches are mainly early and late. At this time of year water temps can be an issue.  Success drops dramatically as water temps reach 70 or more.  In general, we are now having summer conditions with most hatches early and late in the day.

Not As Much On Tailwaters (Catskills, NY)
At this time the dry fly activity on the freestone rivers is early and late. The tailwaters have a bit more daytime activity with sulfurs from mid afternoon until dark.

Peaking? (Penns, PA)
Yesterday was the best day I've had on Penns this year, water 68 at 1pm.  I caught fish on Slate Drakes, Cahills, Golden Drake, Craneflies and nymphs.

Angler Hatch (Northern California)
The weekends are producing a big angler hatch on both rivers. The beauty of the USac is that it offers a plethora (shit load) of places to fish if you encounter people ... unlike the McCloud (McCrowd) that can sometimes offer used water only.

A Matter Of Style (Au Sable, MI)
To me there are two styles of attractor fishing.  The first involves… throwing an abnormally large fly in an attempt to raise a quality daytime fish.  …The other style is more analytical.  This involves smaller flies.  Each cast a hypothesis.

Super Size (Madison, MT)

Match The Hatch (Montana)
For Your Early Weekend - We Suggest Calling In Sick and Going Fishing...

Yellow Snow (Green, UT)
Yellow Sally Stoneflies and Caddis flies are fluttering about making it look like snow when they are dropping their eggs.

The Next Generation (Madison, MT)