Hello, Hola, Beinvenue which ever works best for you in the appropriate manor. I want to Thank You all for tuning into the latest installment of Bill's blog.

   Well what's the fishing like? How's the weather? Have you been busy? How are the crowds? What's hatching and how about the water flows? Did it rain last week? What's the weather going to be like this week?  Good, as always. Changes everyday. Yes. Not so bad. Everything, the same. Yes. Changes everyday. No, really.

   So this week we've been hearing a bunch of different reports on what's going on on the water. We've heard everything from " It's been great ", " Not to bad  " to " I haven't got nothing " and " it's been lousy " We'll I think we all know how one persons great can be another persons lousy. I guess it's all relative, the way one person looks at a 12" trout and says "that's a nice trout" and another says "small but a cute trout" and some people are just happy to be out. I think the later is probably the most prevalent in heart of most anglers. After all a bad day of fishing is better than a good day at work.

   The real truth of the matter is, the fishing up here is just as good as it always is. Sure it's true that you don't always catch as many as you'd like. But the fact of the matter is that there are a ton of fish out there. The fish and game department has just recently thrown in, yet another stocking of 2 year old brook trout. And this makes for some fun fishing when you have the right fly and your presentation is proper. We've been having great days on the water guiding, we will certainly with some luck will end with a few fish in the net. But, the amount of fish that we can see in a day or just an evening is pretty impressive.

   The weather this past week has been a bit of a downer, We had a bunch of rain the prior week and into this one. With these heavy rains came some substantial flooding to go along with them. This has blown out our floats and reduce down the areas of which we wade in. The small tributaries have been taking a beating with these bouts of rain. Although the past several days have been dry and extremely comfortable. This has allowed the rivers t come back it form and it looks like we're back on schedule. We can always use some rain but just not the torrential downpours that we have received.

   So how about the crowds? Well, with having some of the waters get blown out and unfishable there has been only slightly more anglers in the open spots. The crowds haven't been bad. For example this afternoon I had a guide. ( A father and son) We arrived at the river around 2:30 a few cars in the parking lot, we think, Hey not to bad. We gather our gear head down my favorite path, and as we get to the waters edge, there is not another sole in sight. We hadn't been on the water and fishing for 5 minutes and already had 3 strikes, nothing hooked and landed but a great start. Shortly there after two other anglers showed and headed upstream and away from us. By this time we've started hooking and had landed one fish. We kept fishing and moving and our percentages kept going up and a few more people would show up here and there. So after about 4 hours or and 10 fish later, we decided to call it a night. As we were walking up and off the river, (approx. at 6:30) we past another angler heading down and met another heading to the parking lot with his dog at the same time. The parking lot was essentially EMPTY as far as we could tell there was only one person on this entire stretch of river at 6:30 on a Saturday night. What's up with that? The other day we we're at the Bridge pool, we arrived at 10 a.m. and there was nobody there. Fantastic!!!  My two guest that I was guiding that morning spent the first 1 hour and a half hooking (and even landing a few) more trout than we could keep track off. Our fun and amazement soon was ended when another vehicle showed up and they promptly started fishing from the bridge and casting into our drifts. "This is just not ethically acceptable. If you must fish off a bridge, stay on your own side and do not interfere with the other anglers that were there before you. Common courtesy goes a long way." (This is Purely only My opinion and does not necessarily represent any other opinion of any person, said persons, website or establishment ect. It's just me venting.) Yeah, so the crowds haven't been bad.

   There has been some fairly consistent hatches as of late. Our tried and true B.w.o's, we've got small tan caddis and some little sulphers and as of late there has been even some yellow Sally's.

   We had heard from some reliable sources that the lakes have been fishing well. With the latest surge of rain the surface temps of the lake is starting to drop, and I believe that the fish are starting to think of the onset of Autumn. I know what your thinking.. Autumn? It's still summer. We'll we're getting close to the middle of the month and it would not be uncommon to have our first frost before the end of August. Now there's no reason to freak out, we're still going to have great weather and great days to do all kinds of outdoor activities. All I'm saying, is that, at some point fish are going to start moving. And when they do. Are you going to be ready?

   We are... and where looking forward to it.

   So get out there, anywhere, and wet a line. They say any day fishing is not deducted from one persons life. To me, that sounds like a great trade off.

    PEACE   Tight lines, and small loops... BILL