Fall River: , by Andrew Harris: Perfect fall day: 3 stars I guided Fall River with long-time clients Dick and Chuck today. There was a thick hatch of small baetis in the morning. These are size 20-22 white-winged mayflies. The fish love them and they are tough to imitate. Our best fly for this hatch was a size 20 cream parachute. The big fish were rising in the shallow weedbeds where a dead drift is tough to get. We hooked a few, but had better luck from 11-2pm when the bigger bugs started hatching. The big bug is a size 16 olive PMD. We had fun casting to rising fish until about 2pm. The nymphing was good in the mid-afternoon. We caught fish on small pheasant tails, olive micro mayflies, baetis nymphs, and anato-mays. Several fish came off in the weeds, but both Dick and Chuck landed nice fish today. Chuck and I finished the day with some great short-line nymphing on the Pit.
Dick caught this one on a nymph Chuck with a great rainbow Next 10 open days for Andrew Harris: |