Salmonflies !!
It's that time of year.
Here's my "old" standard.
And one of four wild and native West Slope cutts that ate it today.
Follow the link for more information. ( Since the original article, I've gone to Montana Fly Company small speckled orange centipede legs for the antenna, tails, and legs. )
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/fotw...tw20100607.php
The fish are always right.
Where we're you fishing?
The Lamar, or was it Soda Butte, or ....Originally Posted by Byron haugh
John
Hint - you could check out the Fishing Reports Forum.
The fish are always right.
South Branch Raritan? Near Hackensack?
Nice fly. Damn good fish. Our season here--East of the divide--is a good two weeks ahead of schedule. But still way behind yours. Only a few hours West.
Still kind of early ...
... and I wouldn't consider it salmonfly season over here, Sandy. It will likely be a while before it gets started.
The outing yesterday was more on a hunch, and in response to Poke 'Em's comment** about an early end to the run off perhaps leading to a great salmonfly season. I tied up a JC's Salmonfly and headed off to the Lochsa. The fishies have been looking up for skwalas - so why wouldn't they look up at a bigger version of the same basic shape in different colors ??
The hunch paid off. And four of the trouts that rose to the fly ate it. Only one refusal. Got to see three of the fishies rising to the fly from deep down - the other one was a very sudden, aggressive attack on the fly. What fun !!
John
** Follow the link.
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/s...Off-2012/page2
The fish are always right.
Still not the season ...
... but it was a wild day with the snow and salmonflies today. Follow the link ...
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/s...103#post452103
... to post #28.
Can't hardly wait until it gets good.
John
The fish are always right.
'Tis the season
Had an adult salmonfly from a local creek here at the house several days ago.
Saw an adult on the wing over on the Lochsa last Saturday. And today, the Idaho Fish & Game enforcement officer on the Lochsa told me he had seen a good number recently.
Gave an acquaintance, who was having a tough time catching any fishies over there, some FEB Salmonflies and he proceeded to not only catch a bunch of cutthroat trout with them, but also a couple steelhead, all in the past week. ( NOTE: it is not legal to target steelhead on the Lochsa. )
John
The fish are always right.
What are the flows on the Lochsa now? I used to hang out with a kayaking bunch that made an annual early season pilgrimage, from Bozeman to the Lochsa, so they could experience the ongoing rapture of near death white-watering, for days at a time. When they showed me their film slides (this was a while back) I decided to choose life. And didn't go with them. I did do the Gallatin Canyon, a week off peak high water, the first week I had my new kayak. So I got a taste or two of that rapture too. Adrenaline that thick is addicting.
For information on the streamflows ...
... follow the link, Sandy.
You'll have to "wade" through quite a bit of material on the dull stuff, like fishing and fish and flies and banter, but you might even enjoy some of that while you are tracking the streamflows since late March.
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/s...p?45688-Lochsa
If you start at the end of the thread, you'll get the information you're asking about sooner rather than later.
As to the kayaking, a lot of the traffic that I see going and coming are rigs carrying kayaks and rafts for the white water rides. I don't see any boating on the stretches of the river that I fish. They are all headed on further down the river. Not sure why. A couple narrow canyon sections where I fish should give anyone enough thrills for a day.
This pic is from 6-8-11, when the 2011 runoff peaked a bit lower than the river was running just a couple weeks ago. No dry flies and a lot of weight on the nymphs.
John
The fish are always right.
Salmonfly Models
It just occurred to me that I've not posted pix of the models I used for my FEB salmonfly. These were from the Henry's Fork of the Snake in the Vernon area several years ago.
John
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