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Spring
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Summer
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| Fly Patterns Flashback Hares Ears Soft Hackles Pheasant Tail Nymphs Lightning Bugs Copper Johns Stonefly Nymphs Prince Nymphs Blueberries RS2 Blue Winged Olives (BWO's) Adams Light Cahills Gray, Tan, or Black Caddis San Juan Worms Egg Patterns such as the X-TC & Y2K Streamers Woolly Buggers ============== Expect: Warmer Days and rising water temperatures. Spring weather activates insect activity and the fish. Warmer temperatures and sunny days really get the hatches going -- and the fish respond! Caddis, mayfly and midge hatches take place in abundance at this time of the year. |
| Fly Patterns Parachute Hopper Turck's Tarrantula Ants Beetles Crickets June Bugs Inch Worms Hares Ears Griffith's Gnats Adams Royal Wuulf Light Cahills Midges Muddler Minnow ============= Expect: Warm to Hot Days and peak water temperatures by mid-Summer. Summer mountain temperatures bring out the grasshoppers along fields. Other terrestrials such as ants, beetles, inch worms, and June bugs are the standard trout fare on summer days. In September, nymph fishing returns with some top water action on clear, sunny days. Stoneflies in particular are very effective at this time of the year. |
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Winter
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Fly Patterns |
| Fly Patterns Stonefly Nymphs Hares Ears October Caddis Blue Winged Olives (BWO's) Adams Pheasant Tail Nymphs Prince Nymphs Blueberries Tiny Black Stoneflies Hellgrammites Egg Patterns such as the X-TC & Y2K San Juan Worms Streamers Krystal Buggers ============== Expect: Cool to Cold Days and cold water temperatures. Winter weather means large trout taking streamers, woolly buggers, and nymphs fished deep. Excellent trophy trout fishing throughout the Fall and Winter months. Air temperatures seldom get below 32 degrees. Mornings are usually crisp with average daytime temperatures in the 40's, and 50's. Warm days can develop into "dry fly" days. |
| FEBRUARY-MARCH | ||
| Blue Winged Olive (Baetis) | Early Afternoons - Warm Days | 18 Blue Winged Olive, 18 Adams |
| Early Black Stone | Black Stone Fly Nymph | 18 Black Adult Stone Fly |
| Blue Quill, Paraleptophlebia Adoptiva | Late March... Morning to Early Afternoon |
18 Blue Quill Wet & Dry,
18 Adams |
| Quill Gordon, Epeorus Pleuralis | Late March - Early Afternoon | 12-14 Quill Gordon, Wet or Dry |
| APRIL | ||
| Blue Quill, Paraleptophlebia Adoptiva | Late March - Morning to Early Afternoon | 18 Blue Quill Wet & Dry, 18 Adams |
| Quill Gordon, Epeorus Pleuralis | Late March - Early Afternoon | 12-14 Quill Gordon, Wet or Dry |
| Dark Dun, Black Caddis | Mid April - Mid Mornings | 14-16 Black Soft Hackle,
14-16 Dark Elk Hair Caddis |
| Mottled Brown, Gray Caddis | Mid April - All Day | 16 Brown or Gray Soft Hackle,
16 Brown Elk Hair Caddis |
| Hendrickson, Ephemerella Subvaria | All Day - Female Spinner Has Yellow Egg Sac | 14 Hendrickson, 14 Red Quill,
14 Female Adams |
| March Brown, Stenonema Vicarium | Mid April - Sporadic All Day | 12 March Brown Wet, 12 March Brown |
| MAY | ||
| Mottled Brown, Gray Caddis | All Day | 16 Brown or Gray Soft Hackle,
16 Brown Elk Hair Caddis |
| Hendrickson, Ephemerella Subvaria | All Day - Female Spinner Has Yellow Egg Sac | 14 Hendrickson, 14 Red Quill,
14 Female Adams |
| March Brown, Stenonema Vicarium | Mid May - Sporadic All Day | 12 March Brown Wet, 12 March Brown |
| Light Cahill, Stenonema Ithaca | Afternoon - Evenings | 16-18 Light Cahill |
| Yellow Midge, Diptera | Early May | 20 Yellow Midge |
| Gray Fox, Stenonema Fuscum | Sparse Hatch | 14 Gray Fox, Ginger Quill,
Gray Fox Variant |
| Sulphurs, Ephemerella Dorothea | Early May - Late Afternoon & Evening | 16-18 Sulphurs, Light Cahills |
| Black Caddis | Early May | 18 Black Soft Hackle, 18 Black Fluttering Caddis |
| Cream Midge | Mid-May | 20-22 Cream Midge |
| Blue Winged Olive, Baetis | Mid May - Early Afternoon | 20-22 Blue Winged Olive, 20-22 Adams |
| Green Drake, Ephemera Guttulata | Late May - Evenings | 10 Paradrake, 8-10 White Wulff |
| Giant Stone Fly | Early May | 4-8 Stone Fly Nymph |
| JUNE | ||
| Mottled Brown, Gray Caddis | Early June - All Day Sporadically | 16 Brown or Gray Soft Hackle,
16 Brown Elk Hair Caddis |
| Light Cahills, Stenonema Ithaca | Sporadically - Late Afternoon & Evening | 16-18 Light Cahill |
| Sulphurs, Ephemerella Dorothea | Late Afternoon & Evening | 16-18 Sulphurs, Light Cahills |
| Isonychia Bicolor | Sporadically - All Day | 12 Adams |
| Green & Yellow Stone Fly | June - Late Afternoons | 16 Light Green & Yellow Fluttering Stone |
| Giant Stone Fly | Early Mornings | 4-6 Stone Fly Nymph |
| Terrestrials | All Summer | Inchworms, Black Ants, Beetles, Crickets |
| JULY | ||
| Isonychia Bicolor | Sporadically - All Day | 12 Adams |
| Green & Yellow Stone Fly | July - Late Afternoons | 16 Light Green & Yellow Fluttering Stone |
| Golden Stone Fly | Early Morning and at Dusk | 6-8 Stone Fly Nymph |
| Light Cahill, Stenonema Ithaca | Sporadically - Late Afternoon & Evening | 16-18 Light Cahill |
| Terrestrials | All Summer | Inchworms, Black Ants, Beetles, Crickets |
| AUGUST | ||
| Isonychia Bicolor | Sporadically - All Day | 12 Adams |
| Golden Stone Fly | Early Morning and at Dusk | 6-8 Stone Fly Nymph |
| Light Cahill, Stenonema Ithaca | Sporadically - Late Afternoon & Evening | 16-18 Light Cahill |
| Flying Ants | All Day | 20-24 Spentwing Ant |
| Terrestrials | All Summer | Inchworms, Black Ants, Beetles, Crickets |
| SEPTEMBER | ||
| Light Cahill, Stenonema Ithaca | Usually at Dusk | 16-18 Light Cahill |
| Isonychia Bicolor | Sporadically - All Day | 12 Adams |
| Flying Ants | All Day | 20-24 Spentwing Ant |
| Terrestrials | All Summer | Inchworms, Black Ants, Beetles, Crickets |
| OCTOBER-NOVEMBER | ||
| Diptera Midge | Afternoon | 22-24 Black Midge |
| Blue Winged Olive | Afternoon | 18-24 Blue Winged Olive, 18-24 Adams |
