Its springtime and the air is getting buggy. If your a fly fisher worth his vest you have probably been starting the ritual of examining spider webs around outside lights, and conducting post mortem identification on your vehicle’s front grill. Some spring rain has flows up on the White and Norfork this week and with a little more rain, even some snow forecast this weekend we’d expect more generation _ unless the Buffalo catchment gets absolutely drenched.
WHITE: Several days of low water over the sowbug weekend triggering massive caddis hatches from Buffalo Shoal up past Wildcat. The fishing was tremendous, with patterns both sub-surface and dry working well.
This week the higher flows, carrying a lot of river trash, have swung things back towards deep fished eggs and worms, the Pink Lady is very good for these flows.Try Dynamite and San Juan Worms, plus clown eggs and flourescent orange eggs, veiled eggs and Y2ks as attractors.
Streamers have also been working well, including 56ers, Barr’s Bouface, and some of our new bigger patterns like Conrad Sculpins rainbow Sluggos and Circus Peanuts would draw some of the better browns.
