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Brook trout streams are staying cool thanks to good flow, but remember—brookies hate bright sun. One minute, you’re on fish, the next, they’re gone. Just ask Matt, who recently floated a beautiful stretch of one of our special rivers. The brookies were on fire… then the sun broke through, and
After two months of chasing a specific bug (hendrickson, sulphur, drake, Iso, hex) we begin — after the 4th — to chase specific experiences. It could be morning tricos and olives, or a creek, a night fish, a bass lake, attractors, the tail-end of the Isos, the evening small fly
The big bugs including the hex hatch on the trout rivers are behind us after a solid hatch due to consistent but hot weather. Lots of bugs poured off and when the water was cool enough to fish, the fishing was good. Now it seems the river returns to a