My dad and I fished the Rush today from about 10:30 to 4:00. We started off pretty slow, taking a couple fish out of the first few runs. I tried a streamer for a while without any luck. Eventually I switched back to a size 16 pheasant tail and 20 black zebra midge rig and soon had six trout — the biggest being a 12″ brown — to hand out of the next run. I caught around eight more in the run after as well. I noticed a lot of rising upstream and saw plenty of BWOs on the water, and after a few drifts with the nymph rig, decided to change to a dry fly — a size 20 Sparkle Dun BWO. While I was re-rigging dad went about 50 yards upstream and proceeded to catch about a dozen fish — including 15″ and 16″ browns — without moving. He caught them on a size 14 prince nymph and 20 black zebra midge. By the time I had my new fly on, the rising had really slowed down, and I was only able to catch one on top.
We ended up catching 20 fish each, and my dad’s 16″ was his best trout to date. The best fishing was between noon and 2:00; once the clouds cleared out, the bite slowed down. Most of the fish we caught were in riffles less than 2 feet deep, even dad’s bigger ones. The stream was a little clouded, but obviously fishable.
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