Beavers Bend Fly Shop

I was able to get out of work early and took the opportunity to fish the river for a 4 hours yesterday. With the snow and overcast weather, I suspected that this could be good. I tend to like the cold weather fishing, reminds me of my stealhead fishing days in Upstate NY, when I was a kid.

Started out fishing Cold Hole, what was interesting was what I believe to be a BWOhatch happening. Closely looking into the river, you could see these flies all over the place. Fish rising everywhere, put only one took interest in my pattern. Never seen it like this, so I really need to beef up my selection of flies to include BWO’s. Any suggestion on patterns here would be greatly appreciated! Not to name names, but help me out here Kit. Caught a nice rainbow out of Cold Hole, drifting an unencumbered rig, RS 2 and a yellow thread midge, took the RS 2.

Worked the next hole below CH, and found many fish rising but no takers. At the Cliffs, things picked up caught a small brown trout, a few rainbows. Caught the brown on a size 16 bh weighted pheasant tail nymph (quickly becoming my go to fly). Tied on a dropper midge and hooked a couple more on a yellow thread pattern. Worked down to EH, getting toward dusk, had a couple of decent hits but no hook ups.

Weather was cool and overcast but had the place just about to myself. Need to hit the bench and tie us some BWO’s. By the way, that brown trout picture, it looks small only because the net is really big. Honest!

I’ll attempt to post pictures...