Hi everyone, Geno Rapa, Everett Thornton, Burt Strom, and I fished the Narrow River last night and did very well. We fished the river on the incoming tide and the River was in the three C's, clear, cool and clean, and a good number of silversides to boot. My shrimp fly and my pink high tie worked well. We had to change our retrieve all night long, slow, fast, slow and long, fast and short, fast and long and now you get the picture. I like to retrieve my fly fast when the water is moving slow and slow when the water is moving fast a good rule in general.

Best Always and tight Lines, Ed          www.edlombardoflyfish.com   

Dinner at Chico's Hot Springs



Beautiful Cutthroat Trout from DePuy Spring Creek 



Tom Perry on Soda Butte Yellowstone National Park



Toby Miller with big Bighorn Bow                                                       Myself and Dennis Kohler with a side channel brown 



Tom with a Bighorn Rainbow! 



Tom's Bow took my wasp pattern



Bob Santos with a big Rainbow from the Bighorn River on a soft hackle dry size #16



Bob with a nice Cutt from Soda Butte one of many !!!!!



Everett Thornton with a great Bow from the Horn!




Everett with a nice Bighorn Brown



Toby with a Brown taken on a large parachute hopper!!!!




We fished once again the great waters of Montana, and Yellowstone National Park this past July and this trip turned out to be one of the best, as a matter of fact I would say it ranked in the top 5 or 6 trips in the 27 times that I have been!  The water levels had dropped just before we arrived and from that first day of the trip to the last  it was all great! We fished mill Creek, Deputy's Spring Creek, Soda Butte, and the Fabulous BigHorn River, all fished extremly well. The fish at all of these rivers where all very respectable with an average size being 14" to 15" and on The Bighorn this was another big fish year almost like it was back in the 80"s and 90"s. the fish on the Horn averaged a good 16" to 17". All of us took fish in the 19" to 20" class and many of them. Our hatches where BWO's, Black and Tan Caddis, some PMD's, and a lot of stillborn Black Caddis. The terrestrial fishing this year was extremely good with hoppers, wasp, and ants, some of our party took most of their fish on hoppers all week long and big fish at that.  Another great year out West.

Best always and tight lines Ed           www.edlombardoflyfish.com 

  

Hi everyone, I fished the Wood River yesterday and found the trout to be very cooperative when presented an imitation of the terrestrial kind. This is the time of the year when trout start keying in on such insects as ants, flying ants, bees, wasps, inchworms, and beetles. Trout took my wasp pattern very aggressively, a size #12 hook, green rabbit fur body, loose cell foam tied in as a shellback, and two to three turns of a brown furnace hackle just behind the head of the fly. Trout also liked my sparkle ant pattern in sizes #16 and # 14. The good news is, water level is just about right and with all of the rain we had this past spring and early summer I believe the Wood River will be above normal regarding water height for the upcoming fall season, it is usually very low for that time of the year. Most of the trout took ants and wasps and one fish took a Gray Soft Hackle Dry fly. I did see some BWO's and a few yellow mayflies later in the afternoon and evening. 

 Best always and tight lines, ed          www.edlombardoflyfish.com

 

George on the Narrow River

Hi everybody, we fished the Warren River and Bristol Narrows on Monday and did very well. We took fish on both the outgoing and incoming tide. The water is still cool and not that warm as of yet. We started at the Warren River just upstream from the bridge near the old American Tourister Plant; fish where just below the point to the right. The Bristol Narrows water color was very brown and dark; we took no fish and fished only for 20 minutes or so. We went back to the Warren River and by then the tide had turned to incoming, no fish the outgoing tide fished much better. The best fly pattern again was a shrimp pattern size #1, and 4" streamer patterns in dark olive and brown, a lot of mummies in the water and some very large in size, oh, 4 to 5 " long.

 

Two of my good friends that live on the Wood River told me that the Hex Hatch came off very good on Monday night, and they took a good number of fish. I will try and fish the Wood River soon, maybe tonight but with all of this rain still I do not thing the wading will be that suitable. Remember to use the spinner pattern during the hatch!

 

Best always, Ed     

Top my shrimp fly, and a nice fish last night from The Narrow River

The river fish well but we had to work at it. Some silversides all of the fish that I caught took my shrimp pattern. From 5:30to 7:30pm the we had an outgoming tide and then just after 7:30pm the tide changed to incoming. We took some nice fish from Sprague Bridge to just downstream, oh, about 500 to 600 yds downstream. Using intermediate fly lines, I like the Air-Flow 40+clear 40ft. wf section fly line, just a great line. I'm also using 20# tippet of Berkely Vanish Fluorocarbon.

Now that the sun has come back I will be fishing the Wood River;s Hex Hatch! 

Best Always, Ed           www.edlombardoflyfish.com      

    

     

Fish are still taking worm patterns, mostly on the outgoing tide. 

 

 Hi everybody,we fished the Narrow River last night and the conditions where again just right, outgoing tide when we first started around 4:45,  sand eels enough to draw fish, and the river was clean, no weeds. We started above Sprague Bridge and worked our way down to the mouth. Six fish where landed all schoolies, none over 19”. In four and a half hours, not that many fish in the river. We used our usual fly patterns, shrimp, high-tie streamers in hot pink, pink and yellow, made from craft fur. Oh; the water temperature was a lot cooler, at least by 15 degrees or so.

 

Best Always, Ed            www.edlombardoflyfish.com style="">    

Hex Nymph, note large gills along the abdomen top and the sharp trunks for borrowing in soft mud and silt.

Hi everybody, as stated in my last report pertaining to The Wood River conditions remain the same on the Wood River, as of Monday 6/8/09. The rain might bring the river up a little but this overcast brings out the hatches in a more prolific way. BWO’s Mahogany Duns, Midges, and Gray Drakes are still showing regularly. BWO’s, and Mahogany Duns start showing around 11:00am and go until late afternoon. Large Gray Drakes a size # 10 start just before dark and fish key in on these larger Hex like duns. Which brings me to the following, our famous Giant Michigan Mayfly, Hexagenia Limbata or Hex hatch will be starting around June 15^th. or 16^th. depending on weather conditions, we need hot humid days and with this latest weather it looks as though the Hex may in fact be a little later than the 15^th. For the past thirty years or so the earliest I have ever seen this hatch start was on June 12^th. in a somewhat prolific way. I like using a size # 10 2x long White, Yellow, or Orange body Wulff Pattern for my dun. For my spinner same size and body of orange rabbit fur with spent wings of white calf tail. Once this hatch gets started and the spinners are on the water I will use my spinner imitation most or the time during this hatch. Much more on this later. I will keep you posted!

As mentioned in my last report I will be fishing The Wood river more now that it's almost Hex Time! Look for my reports! 

 

   Best always, your friend, Ed             www.edlombardoflyfish.com    

Jim in the foreground.



Keld and Paul



Toby, Richard, Everett, and Jim



Jim, Bob, and Everett

Thank you Geno Rapa, Keld Olsson, and The Rhody Flyrodders Organization of RI  for hosting such a great night on The Narrow River last night. This was a great time and so many good friends and laughs! More than 12 Fly fishers showed and Geno and Keld where very happy with the turnout. Only two sideliners and two winter flounder  where caught , but the night, tide, bait, and wind all good, just that the fish where not there. Geno said that he thought the water coming from the Gooseberry Island Pond in the back was too warm keeping the fish away.

I will be fishing the Wood River a lot more now, waiting for the Hex Hatch to start, hoping for hot humid weather!  Look for my reports!  

The fish that where taken where caught on shrimp patterns, even the two flats.

Best Always, Ed Lombardo        www.edlombardoflyfish.com   
    

David and Geno Rapa with two nice striped bass from the bay.

We fished Monday night and we all got fish and some very respectable fish at that! David out fished both of us! Fish took shrimp,  pink and bright green high ties, oh; about 3" to 5" in length.  We started at around 5:30pm.

 

Top Paula with her first sideliner, Eric and Dr. Sam Smart on the Narrow River as well.

The fishing on these two days was slow and that's the first time all season. On these two days we managed only some 12 fish or so. One good thing that we observed where the good numbers of sand eels that where in the river.  June is always the time for these little forage to start emerging. They where 11/2" to 3" long and sliver and brown in color. Some very large schools moving all through the system.

Best Always, Ed          www.edlombardoflyfish.com