Over the last couple months we’ve experienced our usual crazy spring weather, from beautiful days with records high temps plus our fair share of cold, damp windy days. Thanks for everyone that shared their reports. As always, pictures first with the reports below.
April Reports
From Lane Hoffman: Had a good trip over to Rocky Ridge Lakes with Laura Anderson.
From Craig Kerschen: Some bigger smallies now moving into shallow water. This one at 19″ put a good bend on an 8wt.
From Rich Harvey: had an epic opening morning on the Deschutes below Warm Springs. Big big hatches & hungry fish; got 26 swinging soft hackles.
From Dave Kilhefner: caught the last of the winter steelhead run on the upper Sandy River.
May Reports
From Rich Harvey: took a road trip to Missoula to visit my stepson. Saw lots of beautiful country, wildlife and got into a bunch of brown trout on Rock Creek on my 3wt.
From Chris Brehm: Spent a few days in Wyoming on the green below Fontinel while on a month long Van trip. Only got a few whities to show for it, then on to the Miracle Mile where my luck improved. Small Perdigons and Wire Worms got it done
From Darryl Huff: Had to work hard for the fish but some nice ones were caught. No increase in the amount of big bugs around from 10 days ago. Stone fly nymphs were productive at times. Very little top water action. The caddis hatch has barely begun. 20 mile an hour winds all weekend didn’t help. On a good note, the old guys cleaned up at the poker table both nights!
From Mike Shiiki: We caught a few each & the boys caught some fatties. Some good chubbie eats and some green perdigon/rock worm eats, couple white fish on streamers (which we laughed at). I didn’t catch any big trout, but will say… relaxing in the boat & letting my son row us the whole way was awesome!
From Mike Shiiki: Tested a silver vs copper bead theory at Harriett Lake; it was overcast/mostly cloudy. Started with orange/red leech, copper bead, caught a couple. Switched to white leech w nickel bead. Did much better almost immediately. They stocked it with some big ones the past couple weeks & I brought home a bunch of 18”ers. Caught most between 5-6:30pm.
From Wayne Hughes: Did some flyfishing for Largemouth & Smallmouth Bass at Hagg lake. Managed to trick some nice bass to the surface to hit poppers.
From Dave Kilhefner & Rich Harvey: we camped at Trout Creek Campground the last few days of May. Lots of different bugs were hatching and figuring out what the fish wanted was a challenge, but we got fish every day plus saw some very nice fish landed by other anglers.