Current streamflow- 66cfs
Stream temps- upper 50s/low 60s
And now the report you've all been waiting for. It's Delayed Harvest once again! We're a few days late on this report, DH started October 1st, but we wanted to make sure and confirm stocking ourselves before hyping up our DH crowd. While we didn't connect with any trophy fish while we scouted the river last night (photos are from previous DH seasons) we caught a great number of healthy rainbows and saw several big browns sprinkled throughout the DH section.
While we have better temps and streamflows for the start of DH than in year's past, water is still low and clear, and trout are still settling in and spooky. Use light tippet, we recommend 6X, and small flies. With the low flows, many trout will be looking up and feeding on midges and blue winged olives, so small dry flies like a size 16 Griffith's gnat or 18 parachute bwo will make for a fun day casting to rising fish. Small nymphs will find good numbers of fish, especially flashy nymphs like rainbow warriors and lightning bugs, as well as frenchies, blown torches and walt's worms in smaller sizes. The flows are a little low for streamers, but retrieving zonkers and wooly buggers at dawn or dusk may entice some of the big browns to eat.
Brook trout are still in pre-spawn stage, so now is still a good time to find some colored up brookies before spawn is in full swing. Elk hair caddis, parachutes and Griffith's gnats are all good choices.