Fishing Reports

Nice 30 plus flows should see us through the next little while until we're back to brown trout desperation.  A midge larva shuld be in your mix, baetis wet or dry, and grubby stuff. Enjoy the sounds of autumn in elk country.

Woohoo! They've brought the flows back up to having water in the stream.  Fish will spread out a little now, and methinks they'll be vulnerable to small mayflies.  There are still lots of hoppers around though, and pay attention to whether they're showing up in the drift, drowned especially.  I'd do it like this: elk hair caddis or parachute cripple in the glides, fished to trout I can see.  As the pool deepens, I'm making a few more casts with the elky; if nothing happens, I'm trailing a small heavy beadhead, a zebra or a frenchy, and at the head of the pool I may add even another nymph.  Hold your indicator dry at the surface even if it wants to go under.  Cimarroncita will have awesome fishing until closing time Nov. 1.  866 376-2482.

With the water low, fishing is a little tougher.  Your casts and leaders are a little longer, your flies are smaller, and you'd better put away that hot pink thong bikini you were thinking of fishing in if you don't want to spook the whole creek.  I like the long soft tippet when it gets like this, maybe sight nymphing.  Use the brush to your advantage, the shadows as well.  Black beaded mayfly and caddis nymphs offer a subtle and politically correct option for the trout.

With the summer crowds back in Texas, there should be a little more water available by the roadside.  Not that it mattered before (you can always find eaters if you fish the inches), but the space is nice when the air starts biting in the shade hours and the leaves start yellowing just a little.
I'd have my little caddis, maybe doubled up with ants.  Stillborn caddis are also fun sometimes, just soft hackles fished soggy behind a dry.  Trigger nymphs are fine as well as tung WD40s.  Some bigger browns should be coming out for suntans every now and then, so keep your eyes peeled before entering a nice pool.

Water level's up, which always makes for fishing that's more funner, means you can throw junk at the banks and might get some bigger fish coming out.  I still like this mini hot fly I'm talking about.  I like PMD cripples and beetles too.

Private water's good, but the public is cerrao!