Hi everybody, I fished the Wood River just before this rain, and the river was up about a good 8” to 10” from last week, made for a much faster drag free drift. I fished terrestrials and BWO imitations the whole time. This time of year fish are looking up for such naturals as Ants, Flying ants, Bees, Wasps, Beetles, Inch Worms, and Crickets. Fish where not rising that often but when I placed my fly in a likely holding lie fish came up and took it. Most of the trout that I hooked came up to a smaller size Ant pattern black in color, a size #18, I like using a larger size such as #14’s most of the time but on this day they seem to like a smaller version. The few fish that did rise took a larger size # 14 wasps pattern. I did not see many mayflies, BWO’s on the water at all. There are some very nice fish that have been stocked in the river. The water is clear even though we have had a lot of rain over this past weekend. One of the annoyances one has to deal with this time of the year are floating leaves and pine needles, not very good for both the dry fly and subsurface fly fisher. With the rain of today the river will not be good for dry fly fishing for another 5 to 6 days.

Best regards and drag free, Ed          www.edlombardoflyfish.com