Thanks to Bill for the stream report.
Hi Theaux, nice to chat with you Wednesday. I had a good couple hours on the river after I left the shop. I went to the upper Fall Road lot and walked down to the bend before the canyon section. After working my way across the river with a series of casts I picked up a Rainbow on one of the snowshoe cream midge patterns dropped from one of Jason’s beetles. This is the first Rainbow I’ve caught on the riverin a long time. In the right light he had really noticable parr markings and the stripe along the side was a deeper red than I’d seen before. Is this one of the Kamloops? Neat little fish. I picked up another Brown on the beetle pattern. I then switched over to the caddis and missed a few and had a couple of LDRs. After loosing the elk hair caddis on a hard strike, oops, I tied on an X-caddis and managed to miss about another half dozen strikes. I’ll blame it on the light conditions… Light was fading as I approached the next bend and I called it a night. The weather was perfect and the river was virtually deserted. All in all a wonderful little break to recharge my batteries.
Thanks again for the advice and I hope you all have a great 4th!
Bill
And thanks to Jed for the following report:
Theaux, I did get a chance to get out Thursday. Water was low and clear. Saw a fair amount of trout. Fished a foam beetle, cricket, small grasshopper, foam ant, midge dry, and trico spinner. Caught 2 nice browns on the beetles, and a few takes, a large take on the cricket, one fish on the trico spinner and a couple takes; nothing on the ant, the midge and the grasshopper. Didn’t have any 7x; but fishes a long leader 12-13 feet with 6x. Saw large beaver chomping on a deadfall tree in the water. He made quite a racket. Day was beautiful!! I fished from the trail down from Evna to within 200 feet of the dam. Any reason why fish seem to rise so readily in the flat water just upstream of the trail, but as you hit more riffle water not much rising?? There did appear to be more bugs closer to where the trail descends at that flat water. Saw one tiny sulphur, midges, tiny caddis, what looked like a large stonefly adult, and what appeared to be a crane fly. Thanks for the Guide Lines.
Take care,
Jed