Hi Folks, Guided a couple fly anglers yesterday looking to tug on some fly eating smallmouth bass. Incredible weather day. Blue bird sky and nice cool conditions. This must be how it feels to live in San Diego. Okay, back to fishing. Water level was just slightly above the seasonal average flow and the temperature was 69 degrees in the morning and rose to 71 degrees by time we wrapped up the full day at 3pm. We landed fish in every spot we fished yesterday. No top water bite, but I suspect that was due to the bright sun. However, the fish were eating below the surface. We cast a #8 olive bunny bugger and a #6 olive and yellow clouser minnow. Lots of small craw fish, baby fish, and baby bass in the shallow margins. I think our flies imitated the forage items fairly well. Good day for species diversity as we caught several large fall fish, a nice walleye, and lost one pike that broke us off. Not the norm to catch a walleye on a fly. We focused on large pools and some slow water where there depressions in the stream bottom with drop offs. All in all we landed 10 smallmouth and missed half a dozen. Fun day on the water. I am off to chase trout morning and night today. Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home. Have Fun, Willy
