Spent the day battling fierce winds and trying to match the caddis hatch. Mixed caddis and PMDs in the morning. Little surface activity mid-day but the caddis started popping again around 4 PM. Had the whole river to ourselves.
Did manage a fair number of cookie cutter half-pounders, mostly 12-16". PMD dries (#14) worked early. Mid-day picked up a few on skinny olive woolly buggers. Afternoon and evening action was best on #14 tan caddis imitations, it helped if they had a cinnamon colored wing.
My brother-in-law, Rich, working the far side of the current seam. Funny how they were rising in the most invconvient place possible. The gusty upstream wind didn't help any, either. The wind made it very difficult to target fish, if you could get short drag free drift right on top of a feeding lane the fish would smack the fly pretty vigorously.
Persistence paid off. We each landed about a dozen of these slender silver beauties out of this run. Taped this one at 14", pretty common for what we saw today. Note the cinnamon wing Elk Hair Caddis.
If you recognize this bridge you know where we were fishing. (Near La Grange).
Enjoy the weekend, see you at the Spey-o-rama.
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