Wasps                                          " The Wood "




          Burt  Strom with a nice Rainbow              Early Fall on The Wood River  

Burt and I fished the Wood River Tuesday and found rising trout the whole time we fished. We fished late afternoon to after dark, oh, around 8:00pm. Fish are on top feeding often on tiny midge adults and pupa. Looking on the surface of the water you can see copious numbers of these tiny diptera. The good news is that we are catching fish on much larger imitations such as ants, wasps; inchworms, soft hackles, both dry and wet, and larger chironomidaes. These flies range in sizes from #16 to #12’s. Some of the deeper pools in the river are holding more fish because the river is so low. What we need is a good dose of long periods of rain. If the river where up a good 12” or so many of these fish would start to spread out to other sections of the stream.  I left the two pools that had plenty of fish; I wanted to see if other sections of the river had rising fish. I started walking upstream looking; I can tell you that I walked for a good ½ mile and only saw two rising fish. I did take both of them on a larger Adams Parachute Emerger, size #14. I think both fish took this fly as an opportunistic meal, as this fly didn’t imitate any natural present. I must tell you parachute imitations are working very well, especially those patterns tied so that the body of the fly breaks through the water’s film. Burt has been very successful using these patterns.  When fishing these larger flies instead of these much smaller midge patterns I have found that if you place your cast as soon as a fish rises, I mean cast right to that fish while it is still looking up as we say, most trout will hit or take your fly out of instinct. The water had a reading of 63degrees.

Yesterday we fished the River and again the same scenario. 
 

Best always, Ed     www.edlombardoflyfish.com