Fishing report, 6/30/10 The Wood River Hex Hatch
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
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