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San Juan River - September 28th, 2009
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED: 
77 °
FISHING: Excellent
Good flows and somewhat reduced crowds make for some exciting fishing on the Juan. Discos and red hots in 22 and smaller will see you through. Red larvae too, though be advised that the midday hours will slow down quite a bit on annelids. Try some ugly streamers on sink tips to pull some truly epic browns, and mice patterns in the last minutes of light. Don't forget to get your barbs down, as Fish Five-O is on the job. This is a great time to be on the river.
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San Juan River - August 26th, 2009
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED:
84 °
FISHING: Excellent
All the way down to Simon, fishing has been great on flies ranging from juju baetis, foam wing emergers, annelids, and leeches. To have some serious fun, tie on a Stalcup's hopper or cricket and trail an ant as you slowly walk the banks looking for opportunist trout. Recent breezy days make a nice hopper fall a real possibility.
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San Juan River - August 17th, 2009
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED: 
75 °
FISHING: Great
The flow's over 900 cfs if you can believe it, so there is some unseasonal new water to explore. Ants, baetis dries, zebra midges and the like are working great. Foam wing RS2s as well. Bring the bug dope.
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San Juan River - July 27th, 2009
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED: 
88 °
FISHING: Excellent
Crowded of course, but you can wander among the people with midge pupae and larvae of all colors (blue/gray is nice), or you can go hunting bank huggers with a parachute adams, comparadun, or a stalcup's hopper in green or tan. A Joe's hopper will sometimes work too, believe it or not. Trail a small hard-shelled ant and see what happens.
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San Juan River - July 2nd, 2009
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED:
90 °
FISHING: Excellent
There are actually some caddis out there, which always gets me in the mood to swing pupae at dark. Otherwise, it's the same midge bag with some worms and scuds thrown in. If you're into it, try walking the banks and picking off sighted fish with hoppers. They get madder when you fool them in shallow water. And get those barbs down, or it's a hundred dollar ticket.
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San Juan River - June 12th, 2009
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED:
85 °
FISHING: Excellent
Flows have dropped to around 500 cfs, as of about today, which means the fish may either be on the bite or getting their bearings and finding their spots. Major ant fall going on, though if you're reading this, it may be over (I'm sure plenty of fish, however, wouldn't turn down an ant post blizzard). Otherwise, I'd try the usual host of flies, keeping in mind that getting bearings means their minds might be blank slates. Worms, eggs, midge larvae in red and orange. You know the drill.
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San Juan River - May 29th, 2009
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED:
72 °
FISHING: Fair
At these high flows, a boat is to your definite advantage. Fish big bites, worms, eggs, leeches, or focus on side channels with small midges and PT nymphs. This is a good time to experiment, when fish might sample a fly of a strange size or color before letting the fast current take it away. Big indicators will help, and a rod stiff enough to throw a loaded up leader.
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San Juan River - May 19th, 2009
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED:
75 °
FISHING: Good
If I were to fish the Juan with these rising flows, I'd tie on a Tim's leech and jig it or swing it wherever I could carve out a spot. I'd keep my eyes peeled for other anglers doing better than I was, or a hatch bringing fish up. Then I would start fly switching, covering red larvae, black midge larvae and emergers, PTs, Killer Mays and, of course, my normal suite of worms and egg patterns. FYI, I got a report from a regular Joe who caught a bushel of big fish the other day on the only fly he was able to see, a size 14 parachute adams. If the water was dirty, I wouldn't mess with a rod lighter than 5 weight or a tippet lighter than 4X (though changing should be an option if you've exhausted all others).
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San Juan River - May 7th, 2009
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED:
69 °
FISHING: Excellent
Standard fare is working marvelously, chocolate RS2s, Johnny's, cream and gray larvae, small (#10) black leeches, and red things, all mostly teeny (#20) to tiny (#24). Scheduled flow increases will begin on May 20, at which time the releases will go up 500 cfs per day until Memorial Day weekend when you should expect to see a leveling off at 2,000 cfs. Increases will resume after that until the river hits 5,000 cfs on May 28; there it will stay for some weeks. This is the time of year when you blow that several hundred bucks you've been saving for a new TV on a guide trip, because a boat is definitely an advantage during the gush season. You can get away with bigger, less Juany, flies now; I like sculpins on a sink tip or big princes under an indicator on a 6 weight. Those insisting on fishing from the bank (translation: the parking lots) would do well to learn a few single handed spey casting moves to give you some distance when your back is up against the willows. Really though, hire a guide or promise your boat-owning friend that you'll muck out his septic tank in trade.
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San Juan River - April 20th, 2009
supplied by: The Reel Life
RECORDED: 
55 °
FISHING: Great
If I had my way, I would find myself a good baetis riffle (I like the puddle below Lunker Alley) and wait for a cloud to cross the sun. Then I'd be ready to cast to some heads. I don't think a small #22 or #24 bwo (to be technically accurate) should be off your line. If you want to swing the leech, fine. Midges or red larvae or eggs, fine. But now's the time that you can fish the tiny sailboats for the time of your life.
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