slow going
Yes. Got out with my son yesterday (13yo), which was really great!
We got there around 12:30 and started fishing by 1pm. Everyone coming off the river was looking pretty frustrated. Nothing like last week.......
We wokred our butts of nymphing and only managed a couple of small stockie rainbows for the whole afternoon. So we decided to hike down to chapel figuring maybe it had gotten less pressure. Got there sround 5:30 and fished it for an hour and fish started to feed, but not on the surface so we got a few more rainbows on caddis nymphs then hiked back up to piano pool hoping for an evening hatch, since we had gotten the "no curfew" signal from mom.
Only 3 guys working the pool so we waded in and started trying some dries. Fish were working steadily, but no visible hatch was really coming off. Some of the rises were very splashy and we went with Hendcrickson emergers and got a lot of refusals, but as the evening went on they started to cooperate and we managed another half dozen fish. My last and nicest fish of the day was a fat 11inch brownie. We quit around 8:15pm.
I had high hopes for a good evening hatch of blue duns or something, but the bugs really never came off in any numbers. There were the usual tan caddis skimming, and a number of red quills in the air, doing the dance, but none fell and no major feeding ever materialized. A between hatches lull?
Great to see my son get his first trout on the dry though!!
