Hello all my fellow fishers,July is here, the cicadas are singin, the water is up under the trees, and the trout are taking the “big bugs”. We have been throwing cicadas at the banks for the last two weeks, and have been fairly successful, but now that we are in July the high water is… Continue Reading
Hello everyone, Well I have some great new! I herd the first few cicadas buzzing along the river yesterday. I couldn’t resist, I just had to try it. So I tied on a home tied cicada pattern and a #18 zebra midge 20” below and started pounding the shoreline, within 30 minutes, I had my… Continue Reading
Hello My Friends, This is a picture of Danial Doolittle and myself with a fat 18 incher he caught with a size 18 lazier midge. She fought her tail off. She jumped and done summer salts in the air it was awesome. This time of year 90% of the rainbows jump at least once and… Continue Reading
Hello my fellow fishers,Here is a picture of one of my clients, Bill Brennan with a nice 17″ Lee’s Ferry rainbow. The fishing is about as good as it gets at the Ferry right now. As far as sub-surface fishing goes. The good fishing will continue through June. Towards the end of the month the… Continue Reading
Hello all my fellow fishers. The fish are happy, the midges are hatching, and the weather is beautiful. Here is a picture of Charles Loepkey, and a beautiful 17″ wild rainbow he caught first thing in the morning. He proceeded to catch one fish after another from the same spot, on the same flies until… Continue Reading
Hello my fellow fly fishers. As I said before I am starting to see lots of spiders, moths, and ants. The cicadas will be next but we have to hit that 100 degree mark in canyon first. As for the midges they are here and hatching in a BIG way. I had the pleasure of… Continue Reading
Hi all,The first thing that comes to mind is what great weather we have been having!. The fishing has been getting better by the day.I am starting to see the ants ,spiders,moths,lizards etc.active soon to follow hoppers and other terrestrials. Around the 100 degree mark the cicada.I cant wait. But until then we focus on… Continue Reading
Hey my friends, My interpretation of this pectrogliph which can be found on the river at mile nine is bighorn sheep make the would go around. Hows that for all of you sheep hunters? Now about the fishing. Do to cold nights and weird weather patterns we have had very little bugs as in fish… Continue Reading
Hello everyone, When the weather is good and the river level is down for the afternoon the fishing is good. As you can see one of my longtime clients Tim Flanagan caught a beautiful,big brown trout, but he wasn’t the only one. Daniel Huthsinger caught a 17 inch German brown seven days later. He was… Continue Reading
Hello My Fellow Fly Fishers,To start with the weather is great, today its around 60 degrees and the lows are staying above 40 degrees. 45-50 degree lows are the magic number, when this happens the midge and black fly hatches will be more prolific, in short “lots of them”. As always in the spring these… Continue Reading