Geno Rapa with a nice kepper!   

Geno and I fished the River (Narrow River) late yesterday afternoon just above Sprague Bridge on the east side because of the very high winds, oh, maybe 20 to 25 mph. This is the only fish landed in the three hours we fished. I did in fact have one fish on but did not land it, I think it was a shade the way it hit the fly. We didn’t see much bait at all in the river, nothing like last week, last week this river was busting with all kinds of bait. We also tried Middle bridge and not even one hit. This time of the year you have a much better chance if you keep on going as often as you can; most of you know things can change from hour to hour because of the migration etc. We where using our usual flies pink high ties, shrimp patterns, and Geno’s Elusion.  I’m sure we will be out on the river soon I will keep you posted.

 

Best always and tight loops, Ed                       www.edlombardoflyfish.com  

Gene, Geno, and Jack on The Narrow                                    Jack with a nice sideliner

The River is still holding a lot of bait, but the water has been very, very high. With the new moon and a 5' tide and the month of the river being pushed with big water serge, it has been very hard for wading during these peak high tides. Best to go on the low side of the tides. 

we plan on going tomorrow late afternoon, I will let you know how we do.

Best always & tight loops, Ed         www.edlombardoflyfish.com    

Geno with a nice fish from Jamestown  and Jack  with a nice fish from Jamestown



Jim with a nice fish from Jamestown

 

Gene, Geno, and Jack on The Narrow River - good times! 

All of us are having a great time on The Narrow, the last 10 days or so have really picked up. A whole lot of bait in the river right now. just get out! Both tides have been fishing well so this makes that more attractive.

Best always, Ed     www.edlombardoflyfish.com

A Geno Rapa photo

Hi everybody, I took this great fish on a 1/0 brown and black Aura Fur snake fly that I tie earlier this night. The fish took the fly like a trout sipping midge pupa, very suttle like. When I set the hook all hell broke loose. We meaursed this wonderful fish and it is 42" long. We also took many shad and a few smaller stripers. The river is loaded with bait. Many bunker in sizes from 4" to 7" long. Just another gift from a great river in RI.

Best always, Ed     www.edlombardoflyfish.com  

 

Top left, Geno Rapa with a nice sideliner and Tom Perry just upstream from bridge.

Hi everybody,we fished the narrow River both Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Tuesday night the tide changed at oh, about 5:20pm to outgoing and that is when the fish started eating our flies, we took fish in the 12” to 22” in class. The water is a lot cooler now and a lot of bait is in the river; we could see juvenile bunker, size 11/2 “to 2” long and a few skipjacks as well. We took a good number of these sideliners and then at dark the shad started showing, and that’s always a lot of fun. The shad where mostly small with a few fish in the 20” class.

 Last night the tide started changing to outgoing at about 6:30pm and it was an altogether different scenario, the water in the system just didn’t want to get moving, no fast moving current, and no rips at all. We did in fact manager to take a few nice bass but no where near the numbers as the night before. On Tuesday the height of the tide was a 3.6’ reading and last night it was 3.4’ just a little different from Tuesday night. But anyway all in all it was still a great night, a few fish, no wind, great friends and a beautiful sunset, what more can one ask for. The flies, all pink, brown over pink, over white, and shrimp patterns, both in sizes, 1/0 & 2/0. For the shad much smaller hooks, flies tided on 4’s and 6’s yellow and white with some flash. We where using intermediate fly lines. The water is clear and not many weeds even on and outgoing tide.

 

My best and tight loops, Ed     www.edlombardoflyfish.com               

Hi everybody, we have fished the Narrow River now some four times since coming back from out West and the it has been not dissapointing! Last night we started at around 5:15PM until, oh, about 9:00PM. We started at Sprauge Bridge and ended up at Middlebridge. The tide changed at around 5:45Pm and the fish where there, from 12" to 22" but all very fat fish. We got into the shad at Middlebridge. White and Pink, all Pink,  highties and shrimp patterns worked best.

My best and tight loops, Ed         www.edlombardoflyfish.com      

Bill Trinque,  at left , and Bob Santos on the Henry's Fork in Last Chance Idaho



The Madison River just outside of West Yellowstone and The beautiful Slough Creek in Yellowstone Nat'l Park



Bill Trinque with a nice cut from Soda Butte Creek and Bob Santos with a nice brown from the Bighorn

 

Dr. Nick Califano with a Bighorn Brown and Bow! 



Art Hanson, Tom Perry, and Dock at the afterbay dam.



Tom and Art on the Madison River just above Quake Lake, Montana.



Great meals from Deb & JJ at The Bighorn Lodge



Bill and Bob on The Fork

Hi everybody, again just a great trip out west this year! All of us had a wonderful time, lots of fun, lots of fish, and a good time with great friends! The Henry's Fork did not fish well this year again so we fished the Madison and did very well. Soda Butte fished very good like always and Slough Creek did not. And The Bighorn is always just the best! 

Announcement : On the 21st. of this month we will be holding a fly fishing class on the Blackstone River. This program is being sponsorded by The Northern Chapter of TU and RIDEM/Fish and Wildlife. This program is free and will start at 9:00am to 3:00pm Saturday. For more information and to registration call 1-401-789-0281. For details look for Tom Meade's notice in Sundays paper.         

We fished the Narrow River yesterday morning, and started oh, around 7:15AM. Very little boat traffic at that time and no people as well. The tide was still outgoing and moving pretty fast at that, just enough pull against the line and flies. Bob, Toby, Tom and I fished hard looking for fish in all of the most likely places and we could only manage to take a few stripers and a few flat fish as well. We decided to try middle bridge because the water was still outgoing and no fish, a fisherman on the bridge did tell us that a few shad where taken earlier and that he had seen a very large striper from the bridge. We left the river and headed for Salt Pond just south of the Snug Harbor Marina. Again we all fished hard and at this location the water started moving out just what we wanted and for the next two hours or so, no fish, not one just a few bumps.  We left and had a great lunch and beat the rush hour home being on the road at 2:45 PM.      

 

This is prime time for the Hex hatch; Fourth of July marks the start of the peak time for this giant invertebrate, and with all this heat and more importantly humidity this hatch should be very copious indeed. Remember to fish the spinner most of the time!

 

Best always, Ed            www.edlombardoflyfish.com         

Hi everybody, we fished the Wood River last night and as usual not much going on until 9:00pm. We started at 7:30pm and tried to encourage a fish to come up and take our offering of one of our Hex patterns; even though the hatch was a good hour away or so, some times trout will come up for one of these imitations now that the fish have seen these Hex naturals for nine days now. It didn’t work only a few pan fish would try and take the large dry fly. At 8:55pm the river came alive with both rising fish and good numbers of Hex emerging. Three out of four of us had good numbers of rising fish to cast to, and then later I ask Bob to move down closer to me so that he would have a few fish to try for. Both duns and spinners where on the water and the trout fed on them for a good 40 minutes or so. I tried a different spinner imitation last night, tail of white calf tail, body of yellow antron yarn, and out spent wings of elk hair, it worked very well and floated after catching and releasing fish. Remember to have a good light with either a green or red filter. This year I have only seen a few fish take emerging Hexagenia nymphs, not that many showy splashy rise forms.

 

Best always, Ed          www.edlombardoflyfish.com                 

Upstream of Sprague Bridge near old house.

Hi everybody, last night Geno Rapa, Tom Perry, and I fished the narrow River. We started at 5:30PM at Sprague Bridge and took a few small stripers while the tide had started coming in. We found the water temperature to be somewhat warm, so we moved down river close to the mouth. At 7:00PM the water started coming in faster and a lot cooler, oh, I would say at least 15 degrees cooler. Again just a few fish where taken not very productive! At 8:00PM we moved back to Sprague Bridge knowing that the water would be much cooler now and again just a few small sideliners. But there is some good news coming out of last night and that is the shade showed up for the first time this season. That's right the shade are in, not many but we did in fact take a half dozen or so and now they should be in for the rest of the season!   

Best always, Ed             www.edlombardoflyfish.com