Sulfur fishing just can't get any better!
Sulfur fishermen, there's just no excuse if you're not catching fish. There are two hatches. both about two and a half hours long. The hatches are heavy enough to get the fish up. Bright sun in the afternoon seems to limit the number of big fish that are up but the evening hatch gets 'em all going.
They are fussy, a lot of them refuse your flies, many are feeding subsurface and don't look up but come on, Dave from the Troutfitter snuck out for a little over an hour tonight and landed five nice ones. Said "He's never seen so many rising fish". Anthony, who has been helping Dave at the Fly Shop and Inn, fished both hatches today and his total of fish landed was in double digits.
You've been told when and where the hatches occur. You need to fish small 18s and 20s, you need to target risers, you can't stand in one spot and cast at the same fish all hatch. Get out of the slow water pools, where it is the easiest to see, but hardest to fool fish. Fish water with some pace and look closely, they will be rising close enough to you that you could scoop them up with a boat net.
The fishing - Clouds caused a delay in the hatch as the water took longer to get up to a temp the sulfurs would hatch in. About 1:00 things started up. Fished a pool I haven't fished for several years. It's a bitch to wade and boulders break up the current making drag free drifts a challenge. The wind chose hatch time to kick up a bit adding to the degree of difficulty. Fortunately there were more than enough fish well within range. Every cast was made to a rising fish and enough fish ate to make it a good afternoon.
The evening hatch started on time and the fish didn't wait for anyone to ring the dinner bell. They all came to dinner and many ate what was put before them. A tired old twenty incher, who probably had been caught earlier in the day, ate one of my sulfurs and seemed to know if he came in quietly he'd be unhooked and sent on his way. Detained him only long enough for a photo.
It's probably the best sulfur fishing I've ever seen. Two hatches a day and a river full of more hungry fish than you can imagine.
They are fussy, a lot of them refuse your flies, many are feeding subsurface and don't look up but come on, Dave from the Troutfitter snuck out for a little over an hour tonight and landed five nice ones. Said "He's never seen so many rising fish". Anthony, who has been helping Dave at the Fly Shop and Inn, fished both hatches today and his total of fish landed was in double digits.
You've been told when and where the hatches occur. You need to fish small 18s and 20s, you need to target risers, you can't stand in one spot and cast at the same fish all hatch. Get out of the slow water pools, where it is the easiest to see, but hardest to fool fish. Fish water with some pace and look closely, they will be rising close enough to you that you could scoop them up with a boat net.
The fishing - Clouds caused a delay in the hatch as the water took longer to get up to a temp the sulfurs would hatch in. About 1:00 things started up. Fished a pool I haven't fished for several years. It's a bitch to wade and boulders break up the current making drag free drifts a challenge. The wind chose hatch time to kick up a bit adding to the degree of difficulty. Fortunately there were more than enough fish well within range. Every cast was made to a rising fish and enough fish ate to make it a good afternoon.
The evening hatch started on time and the fish didn't wait for anyone to ring the dinner bell. They all came to dinner and many ate what was put before them. A tired old twenty incher, who probably had been caught earlier in the day, ate one of my sulfurs and seemed to know if he came in quietly he'd be unhooked and sent on his way. Detained him only long enough for a photo.
It's probably the best sulfur fishing I've ever seen. Two hatches a day and a river full of more hungry fish than you can imagine.
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