mystery

Hi Folks Guided Thursday afternoon for river trout with the fly rods. Big blue sky with bright sunny conditions.  Not exactly ideal for trout fishing, but I'll take it coming out of winter and early spring.  Water levels are still scary low.  We did receive some rain yesterday, but we could use some more.  It was fun afternoon with one my repeat guests as we organized flies and did a little recon work on some local trout streams.  Water temperatures in the small brooks was 56 to 57 degrees and the larger river was 59 to 60 degrees.  Did see a few dark bodied #16 caddis hatching and lots of caddis casing on tops of rocks in riffles.  Meaning they are preparing to hatch any day.  Saw an okay hatch of #14 Gray Fox.  A crawling mayfly that resides in heavy riffles.  Not one trout rising to eat a dry or an emerger.  We caught one tiny brook trout on a #12 black stone fly nymph.  Water levels and temps. were ideal and we could not get fish to eat.  A real mystery.  Prior to getting on the water we organized my guests fly boxes.  Separated them by surface or dry flies and sub surface or wet flies and streamers.  Also, then separated them by imitators and attractors.  Makes figuring out your fly selection a little easier.  Pretty easy to keep buying flies and new fly boxes without always knowing what you have or need.  Will be trout fishing today, should be good., we will see.  #14/#16 Hendricksons, #14 Grey Fox, #10/#12 March Browns, #14/#16 caddis all good patterns to fish presently.  Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home.  Have Fun, Willy