Finally a nice day. Our cutthroat rivers are open until Halloween so if you get a chance to get out, DO IT!
My buddy Colin and his brother Dave headed to the west country with me to enjoy some warm sunshine and catch some cutthroat. It was a beauty of a day too. No frozen guides today. We started out nymphing. The usual stuff worked for a while and then we had to downsize to small, real small nymphs. How small, size 20 and size 22 nymphs! Ugg! The water is gin clear and it is easy to look into the pools and see everything. After a while, I strung up a dry fly rod. The cutties were periodically rising. They were eating tiny midges on the surface. The smallest dry flies we had were size 20 BWOs. We tied them on and had a decent amount of success.
This time of the year, there is no real rush to get to your favourite mountain river. The cutts really started to move and feed later in the morning. Often the fly fishing winds down by 4 ish this time of the year. We had to downsize both our tippets and flies. The cutts have seen a lot of flies this year. They seem to look over everything. Yes we got refusals. No drag is essential to success. Do take the time to look and see how the fish are positioned and the best way to present the flies you are using.
Take advantage of the last few days of fly fishing the Eastern Slopes, carpe diem!
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