Rush River 3.21.16

We fished the Rush today from about 2:00 to 5:00. While I was tying on a new nymph rig, Aric called me downstream with a fish on. I hustled down and netted the 17″ brown, another new personal best for him. He soon caught another brown, about 12 inches, out of the same hole. Both were caught on an olive Frick’s Fix. He missed a couple more throughout the afternoon, but those were the only two to hand on the streamer.

I ended up catching five brookies and a brown, while Aric caught one brown, on a hotspot pheasant tail and olive zebra midge rig. The biggest was a 10″ brookie, while the rest were pretty small.

The blue wing olives were coming off while the sun was out and the fish were feeding heavily on the surface, but we never tied on a dry fly because pretty much all fish rising were under 10″, and most under 5″. Midges were out as well, but the fish seemed to be keying on the BWOs. We ran into another fisherman that said he had success with a Griffith’s Gnat and another small BWO pattern on the little guys.