Dad and I fished the Rush this morning from about 7:30 to 10:30. Tricos were in the air when we arrived. After hiking a ways downstream and not seeing any risers, I decided to go with the pheasant tail (size 16) and zebra midge (20) combo that worked well yesterday. I ended up catching five browns and three brookies — with probably half taking each fly — and missing a handful more. They seemed to be all over the runs this morning, and hitting every little spot was key in catching fish.
Dad decided to hike further downstream from me and ran into some fish rising to tricos. He caught two browns using a size 20 trico spinner pattern. We both had a great morning.
UPDATE: I tried to do some night fishing and hit the Rush again from about 8:00 to 10:45 pm. I didn’t have any luck mousing, but caught one brookie and lost a nice 13-14″ brown while nymphing just before dark.
