Its Dry Fly Time!

June is my favorite time for trout fishing. Big fat happy trout snatching up dry flies in gin clear water celebrating spring and summer. This past weekend was the start of the dry fly season. Although none of the "celebrity bugs" were out, there were plenty of small mayflies, caddis and yellow sallies fluttering in the breeze. Plenty of eager trout rising in the runs, riffles and pools. My biggest fish was a 20 1/4 inch brownie that ate a cripple caddis in a small back eddy. The fish was hiding under a ledge picking off cripples in the foam. My fly cruised in the spot and got stuck under the foam and scum. I could see a big bulge suddenly appear in the foamy bubbles and set the hook...the brownie inhaled it! He jumped out of the water and shot out toward the middle of the river. After a good battle he was in the net. I had a little chat with that fish and made sure he was ready to go before I pushed him back into the river. Get a box of dry flies and look for snouts now, this will last for a couple of months and the big bugs haven't started popping yet...the best fishing is still ahead of us.

Paolo