I've been skunked on the American 4 times now. Twice in the last week!!! My brother and I have seen lots of Caddis comming off. Each time we have seen a few fish make splashy porpoising rises which made me assume they're after emerging pupas. My brother had about an 18" fish hit his yarn indicator while drifting a caddis larva. I tried a large hopper pattern to see if I could make him try again, no luck. I tried caddis dries, dead drift no luck, skated no luck. I swung an olive bodied wet fly, no luck. Nymphs with split shot, no luck, without shot, no luck! The caddis seemed very light colored almost white. There were tons of Hydropsyche (green rock worm?) larva in the water. We tried a Czech style nymph very similar to these with... no luck!
Any tips would be greatly appreciated. I'm assuming the half pounders haven't really started yet but I have very little experience with this river and steelhead in general. Thanks
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