Conditions and Weather

The Right Techniques Make the Difference

You’ll find fish looking up at dries throughout the middle of your day on your fishing trip. You’ll want to work nymphs through the cooler mornings and evenings. If you notice consistent rejections, try one size smaller and you may get those fish to commit. Drift terrestrials along the bank, especially next to debris such as log jams or downed trees. If you can't seem to get any fish to eat, drop a nymph below a buoyant hopper. Of course, you can always book one of our fishing guides, who will keep things sorted for you while you focus.

The rainbows will begin to stack up behind pods of kokanee feeding on their eggs. Have a trout bead or salmon eggs pattern handy when nymphing deeper pools. Follow that with a small midge, and you’ll be in good shape.
Don’t leave the house without your streamer box and have a rod ready with a sink tip line. It's alway good to have this as an option when you can’t seem to get the productivity you’d hoped for from your dries and nymphs. This is the time of year when brown trout become aggressive and territorial which will give anglers visuals of eats that will either end in frustration or the reward of a vivid fall picture with a great fish in hand.