Slow and Clear

Day one.  About as good as it gets for 4 hours, 10-2.  I start fishing by 7:30. There's ample pmds to bring up every fish in the creek, but not so many as to make them selective.  It's easy to see the fish, and the flies I'm casting to them.  Just like Wyoming, only gin clear water, no weeds, and I didn't have to move 50 feet all morning.  

Happiness is . . . First one to the parking lot at 7am.

Gotta have that iconic morning view.

. . . In both directions

The flat is looking good, but it seems like the water level is lower this year.  There's hardly any current against that far bank, and there were no fish on that far bank today.  She's pretty skinny.

First fish fly, pre-hatch.

Early hatch fly, par for the course.

The way this soft tackled antron spinner was riding, I don't know if they were taking it for a spinner or a single wing dun.  Either way, they were taking it.

Had to do it later in the hatch.  Still deadly.

Smaller version with a partridge hackle, worked great.

And of course!

There's day one. It was 95 in the shade this afternoon, but gave way to a thunderstorm and rain at 6:00 p.m.  Didn't fish the evening spinner fall in the rain and lightning.

Day two.  More sunny and calm.  I fish a bit lower where it moves even slower.  I almost jinx it by catching a fish on the first cast around 7:30!  It works out however. I change flies more today, partly for fun and partly out of necessity. Seems like every time I change, I get a few eats. At one point early on I go to 6x too.  Sure seems to float better.  Again, I never move more than 50 ft until around 2:00 when the cotton hatch starts.  The one fish on the flat that I really want eats my dun in the morning and a loop wing in the afternoon, but I don't hook up either time.  I have a few of those today.

This cdc one-feather dun won the dun of the day. (Say that fast three times)

Never got to it yesterday.

Organza Timmy!  They loved it. #18.

Not a bad view out my kitchen window.

Ya.  Everything about it.

So a good opening act.  On to Depuy's tomorrow.  Weather coming tomorrow, and especially on the 4th.  Pmds have been adequate, but not heavy.  Word is it happened earlier this year, and might even be happening earlier each year as of late.  But, there were plenty of bugs and plenty of targets.