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Fall Fly Fishing On The Gunpowder River

The Gunpowder is flowing at 34 CFs, low and clear. The lower sections of the C & R have slightly higher flows from the smaller tributaries that enter the river. The flow in the Glencoe Rd stretch leveled out at 75 Cfs, after spiking from recent rains. The low water conditions make for challenging fishing, but anglers are still catching fish on a variety of patterns. Dry flies are still working as searching patterns and indicators with small nymphs dropped behind. Olives and X-caddis patterns are working and we have a number of these locally tied patterns. Nymph rigs with tiny nymphs and midge larvae …

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Wild Browns, Olives, Caddis and Shop Hours

Just a friendly reminder that this is what a wild brown trout looks like. I can assure you that you won’t find them during half-time. Now is the time to figure out how the Tivo works. The Gunpowder is flowing at 32 Cfs is low, clear and full of leaves. Nymphing has been especially tough this week. Streamer fishing has created some interesting catches. If you’re a die hard dry fly fisherman things are looking up. Keep in mind that it’s very important to find rising fish rather than cover a lot of water blind. Small olives mid-morning in the #20-22 range followed by a …

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Gunpowder Gold Firsthand

Thanks to the great group of kids from Harford Day school who joined me for a streamwalk, fly tying, invasive species chat and a little fly fishing at Bunkerkill access point yesterday in the pouring down rain. …and thanks to Lance for the fishing report and photo from last week along the Gunpowder. Hey Theaux Just wanted to tell you that I caught a brown today out of the upper Gunpowder. I was using a white minnow pattern and it was a great day for fishing. It was caught close to a tree and hit like a ton of bricks. From there it went into …

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Fly Fishing Montana:Creeks And Small Rivers

I fished a few creeks in Montana and quickly felt at home on the smaller water. Flows were low everywhere, an ideal time to gain access to the better holding lies. The first day I arrived, I was barely off the plane for 2 hours and we were rigging up on a small creek. This creek held mainly cutthroats and rainbows, which were quite aggressive. We hiked along a precarious ridge overlooking this small tributary of a much larger river. I fished up from the confluence, and quickly found some hungry cutthroats. The fish were six to eleven inch West Slope Cutthroats. In the deep …

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Fly Fishing Montana:Floating The Bitterroot River

The last float of my trip came after a few days wade fishing on my own. Matt and I drove a short distance from his house to the Bitterroot River. The weather had changed, and air temps dropped ten degrees from the previous days. The wind blew hard, pushing clouds across the sun, casting us into ten minute intervals of cold or warmth. The trees along the river were a bright yellow against the gray mountains, and the river, as silver as a mirror. This section of river had good numbers of big browns, and I felt confident fishing one particular streamer pattern. We both …

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Fly Fishing Montana:Floating The Blackfoot River

On the second float of the trip we decided to hit a section of the Blackfoot River. This section of the Blackfoot river was remote, and hard to reach on foot. Matt and I crept along on uneven back roads, before dropping the raft in by 9:00 am. The river was relatively low and clear, which was a major change from the float on the Clark Fork. The clear water wasn’t always good, since it was easy to fall into “aquarium watcher” mode, as I often did. The rocky bottom was interrupted by dark swaying forms that held until the last second, and spooked as …

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