Fishing Reports

Chocolate johnnies and foam wings, grey RS2s and foam wings, chartreuse eggs, red annelids, red worms in the morning, orange late, and small (size 12 or 10) light gray leeches should be your arsenal for the next little while. Lots of salad in the flow. On moderately warm and gray days, don't be surprised if you get some fun dry fly fishing on midges.

If you can't stay at home, take advantage of a sunny day and fish the slow pools with small nymphs.

A tossup really. After a really hard cold snap from Velarde and upstream, there was a lot of ice, and who knows how the fishing will change through the holiday. There's a rumor of more weather, but if the air temps are moderate, try fishing midges and baetis nymphs very patiently in riffles. You might get some good catches of trout. Keep an eye peeled for pike in the froggy stretches, see how if they're getting ready, should happen soon.

Bitty red and thin black midges ribbed with holographic krystal flash ribbing has been a lucky charm lately. Le leech de chamoix is also working just fine. Basically it's time to try all of your newfangled midge pupa patterns. I like the ones tied bowtie style, with the little tufties. Go small and slice the water really thin. Be patient, because you might also run into a gaggle of little fish they recently threw in. Have fun!

All up the racecourse, it's still fishing. Try your streamers in the shady hours if you can get up that early. Show them across the upstream faces of rocks. When the sun comes out, don't be afraid to try a dry fly, though you'll get more consistent action with nymphs. Best that one of them is a baetis imitation, around size 20.
Chase pike if you want at the usual spots, should be easier to see with these low flows. They're spooky though, so dress right move slow, and good luck.

Chock full of stockers and extremely low. Please keep an eye out for active spawning beds as the weeks progress. Expect a hike in water releases starting in about ten days. Craneflies, twenty-inchers, baetis.