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San Juan River - August 24th, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life RECORDED:91 °FISHING: Great
Midge larvae in the top stretch near the cable, black beauties, zebras in olive, gray, two-tone, and black, and red annelids, all in #22 or smaller. RS2s will work of course, and I like the copper ribbed ones too and the foam wings. Flashback PTs in 22 or 24.
Brown worms should ring too, at least as your attractor. You might trail and RS2 or gray Ray behind one.
For you dry fliers, searching with a power ant, foam ant, or just a hard shell should produce well near the banks. Sight fishing with them should be plenty of fun as well. Cluster midges, patch adams, and comparaduns should be enough for any specific emergences.
Conejos River - August 24th, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life RECORDED:78 °FISHING: Great
As is normal with the Conejos, it's pretty much up to you. You can have the right flies on, but the fishing can be wrong if you're not on top of your Ps and Qs. This means pattern choice up top, observing what kind of water your action is coming from, being at the right depth, and drag free if the pattern you're fishing doesn't naturally race around like a motorboat.
Turd is the word as usual, and brown worms. Terrestrials of the black variety (be they crickets or ants), and small caddis will score on top. Keep in mind that the adult caddis you fish came from something, and in this case, the pupae seem to be green. If I had the time and the ganas, I'd search the undercuts with streamers for a bit, maybe lose a few flies, maybe hang a lote.
Cimarron River - August 24th, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life RECORDED:78 °FISHING: Great
Your leader should be getting finer, your dry flies smaller to get these pounded fish. Zebra midges fished close or down deep should produce in the sloughs. I won't say brown worms (See? I didn't say it).
Look for baetis, caddis, and PMDs and fish accordingly. The clock is ticking to the end of the season, and I think the trout everywhere are beginning to sense it. So don't assume they're not eating if the normal stuff doesn't work. They just might not be eating what you're throwing, so get to work.
Rio Grande - August 23rd, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life RECORDED:87 °FISHING: Good
Depends on the weather when you go. High water temps are a possibility into September, but some racecourse fish aren't minding too much as long as they're in the oxygenated riffles and rapids. A PMD nymph seems to matter. In the gorge at Wild Rivers, fish are mainly coming out from in front of rocks to hit swung nymphs, buggers and skated dries, especially if the water's dirty. Not a lot of fish coming out of open water. It's not that they're not there, though they might all be holing up under rocks, just that the murk may make your flies tough to see. Camo buggers, red worms, golden stones, sculpins, and white flies might spark some interest.
Rio Chama - August 23rd, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life RECORDED:88 °FISHING: Great
Sargent still, and we're waiting for El Vado to drop. Dry dropper's still doing it, though expect to see more on the nymph, at least during the slower hours of mid afternoon. Swim the rocks and logs with streamers or dries, and accept that you will lose flies doing so. Any rewards will be certain to compensate.
Pecos River - August 23rd, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life RECORDED:83 °FISHING: Great
Dry dropper all day, smaller nymphs being the best. Crystal PTs, zebras, and the like should keep you busy in deep and shallow water. Elk hair caddis is the right searching fly, or a bug meister, and a hard hell ant trailing behind. Some big browns are being SEEN as opposed to caught near Windy and in the quality waters.
Taos Area Waters - August 23rd, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life RECORDED:77 °FISHING: Excellent
All the creeks are in prime shape, a little stained sometimes, but full of happy trout. I like a floaty dry, nothing else, like a bugmeister, Chernobyl anything, H&L, or trudes. Bow and arrow casts and dapping. If you want to do this and not have your line and leader fall back towards your reel when you hold your rod up straight, tie on another dry real close, a hard shell ant being my choice.
Costilla is beautiful, but it's getting absolutely hammered. Bank paths are like bear trails in Alaska. To get away from people, hunker down in the brushy stretches (there are more unwhacked fish in there anyway) and let them get away from you. Everyone seems to think it's the Costilla of old, when every single fish was stupid and couldn't get enough of a sore lip.
Costilla Creek - August 23rd, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life RECORDED:78 °FISHING: Good
See Taos area waters this week.
Jemez Area Streams - August 23rd, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life RECORDED:77 °FISHING: Great
Good reports from the Caldera. Three weights are best and tiny patch adams and ants. Good time to work on your blind game, gauging your cast lengths, looking for subtleties to indicate strikes. Terrestrials are still the ticket, though what fish up there won't sucker for a well-presented bug?
Northern Lakes - July 1st, 2010
supplied by: The Reel Life RECORDED:89 °FISHING: Excellent
Smallie nation! Great topwater fun on stiff 5 weights or 6 weights.
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