Hi everyone
I have just registered here and I'm very impressed by this forum..

Anyway, I had a question and I wanted to get folks opinion on this. I live in the Northern New York (far, far away from the big city) where water temps have been low. In fact, yesterday was the first time I saw a temp above 50. I fished yesteday around mid-morning and while I was on the stream, a modest hatch of small BWOs were coming off. No rises at all, probably because the water is still pretty cool, but the stream was also running bank-full and kind of chocolate colored. I used a #18 BWO sparkle nymph on point and a #18 BWO emerger above it.....with no luck at all. My question is, does anyone think it's worth fishing such small flies in high, discolored, cold water? I felt like it would have been impossible for a fish to notice sich small flies unless I drifted them right over its nose.
Thanks for any advice!