Backwater Angler - Great fly fishing, cold clear water and fishing reports from the Gunpowder Falls

The gauge is acting up. Rest assured the flow has not changed. We're still looking at 32-34 Cfs. The river is still cold, clear and is beautiful.Beetle, caddis and large streamers have been producing some rather large fish.
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Thanks to Jake, Scott, Mike and John for the following stream reports:

From 9/8:
Message: just a quck fishing report. Fished the gunpowder from Evna road today--the area around the first bend after the dam. Got to the water around 9 am and had no luck with nymphs. Switched over to an Adams/(dun?) around 10 as the fish started rising. Landed 3 nice browns from 9-12 inches, and missed a few more on missed strikes. Plenty of fish, plenty of water as far as I could see, though much lower water than usual.
Jake

From 9/9
Message: Lots of nice trout looking up yesterday above Big Falls Road. They were going nuts for a size 12 rubber legged beetle. It was almost too easy. Careful wading and 7x tippet a must. Only saw one other fisherman all day.
Scott

From 9/9:
Theaux: Fished above Falls Rd near the dam,,,on Sat. morning - 8-12. My best day on the GP all year, and I've fished regularly ( 3 times/mth) since last October. Just shows you, you fish enough, your bound to have a magical day!. Initially caught 3 nice fish on a zug bug dropper off of a 14 caddis. One rainbow that was huge! Got off just as I was about to net him.. then, an hour later, the hatch turned on and fish were rising like crazy!! Must have caught a dozen fish on Griffiths gnats, small Adams and a PMD,, ( I changed up at various times) all within an hour. Very few folks fishing before 10. How nice !
Mike

From 9/10
Message: Hey Theo thought I would drop you a quick line about some recent fishing on the Gunpowder. This afternoon 9/10 I landed a 20 1/2 in brown trout in the plunge pool a little bigger than the 18 1/2 in rainbow I caught a week earlier. So tell those non believers that there really are big trout in the Gunpowder.
John

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