I fished the creek today with some people from my Flycasting class at school. The fishing was pretty slow. I did manage to land one fish on a #16 olive Fox Poopah. I also hooked a beast that shook the hook loose shortly after hook-up. He took a #20 micromay. I saw quite a few other fish, but most were just not interested in what I was throwing at them. Around 1PM the birds started going nuts. I went over to check it out and saw that they were feasting on the emerging caddis. I had waited for that hatch all morning but had to leave when it started so I could get to work on time. The mayflies were starting to come off about the same time. I hope the hatch continues through next week, so I can fish it after finals. The weather was great today, and the flows were around 620 cfs.
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When the flows are in that range..try the back eddy just above the bridge. Swing a big olive damsel pattern along the seam or get out to the mouth of the creek and cast right near the bank and creep the fly back to you. You'll be suprised what's hanging out in that spot. I've fished the same fish for two years there. Hooked it several times, never landed. Good luck, Rich
I also had the bird swarm at 1-2 oclock on Tuesday. It was incredible. I knew what the birds were doing but could'nt see them eating the little suckers. Around the same time there were silver grey colored spent wings floating on the surface that were about a size eighteen. Ten minutes later I landed a fish on a tan caddis that had a real olive pupae stuck to his tongue. He must have thought it was buffet hour.
Cole, it's always cool to catch fish with real bugs still in their mouth. You can see what the bugs actually look like and not somebody else's interpretation of what they look like.
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