Dad and I floated the South Fork this week. We do the usual float--put the boat in the water mid morning at a primitive ramp opposite Irwin and take out at Spring Creek around sunset.
We hit the hatch just right this week. It seems that we are on the tail end of the salmon flies, in the middle of the golden fly hatch, and the PMD's are emerging in the riffles like clock work around noon. The bite is on. We knew something was happening when we arrived at the put in and numerous terns were working the water picking bugs off the surface.
The catching on the other hand isn't the easiest thing in the world. We both have missed and broke off numerous fish. The flows are around 12,400cfs, so the water is moving fast in the main channel. Beating the bank with big flies works in the fast water while careful presentations of small PMD emergers seems to work in the smaller channels.
The pictures are of a fish I caught in the main channel and Dad wading in a smaller side channel.
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