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Green Drakes, Brookies On The Upper Savage River and Pocket Water Dry Fly Fishing on the Lower Savage Tailwater

The famed Green Drake hatch occurs on few Maryland rivers, but I encountered the hatch while fishing the Upper Savage River on the first two days of June with Neil, a shop regular. We spent two evenings wading areas where primarily brook trout were feeding on these large size eight bugs. The action was right before dark, and while fish were rising, the small brookies and large mayflies allowed the fish to gorge themselves quickly it seemed, and begged the question, just how many of these huge Mayflies can a seven or ten inch brook trout eat? I spent some time photographing this hatch and …

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Gunpowder River Clear After Numerous Flood Watches

The Gunpowder river is resilient. After countless flood watches this week the river is in great shape. It is currently flowing at 119 CFs, is 59 F, and is clear from Masemore Rd upstream. Bunkerhill, York, and Big Falls Rd access points also look great. The river is a little off color upstream of the Blue Mount Rd access but should be clearing quickly. Remember folks, the Gunpowder river flows through over 3,600 acres of State park land and protected under a Maryland state “wildlands” designation. By comparison, the North Branch at Barnum is flowing 2, 850 Cfs. Caddis emergers and dries and small traditional …

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Sulphurs in Full Swing, Come On Up, the Water’s Fine

While most of the folks South of us are building arks, we missed most, if not all of the rain last night in the Hereford Zone. The Gunpowder river is flowing at 62Cfs, is clear and 60 F. With air temps approaching the mid-80’s, wet wading is certainly an option. We have some great new CDC loop wing emergers, duns, soft hackles and spinners designed by Eric Stroup in the muffin tins on the front counter. Small elk hair caddis, tiny grey midges and feather winged spinners have also been tricking wild fish. Following are two very different stream reports. The first is from a …

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Sulphurs and Sallies On The Gunpowder River

The Sulphur Mayfly hatch is providing excellent dry fly fishing on the Gunpowder during the early afternoon through nightfall. The water temps are fluctuating between 60-66 from Falls Rd to Glencoe Rd, but are steadily dropping as spillover slows. Sulphurs are coming off consistently in many areas through mid to late afternoon. The shop’s wide variety of Sulphur dry fly patterns have proven effective for numerous customers who connected with the Gunpowder’s wild browns over the past three weeks. Sulphur dries fished through riffles are working during the midday, but skating or twitching them is the key.  Small Caddis dries fished blind will get strikes in …

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Sulphur Spinners along the Gunpowder

The Gunpowder river is flowing at 70 CFs, is 62-67 F throughout the catch and release section and is clear. Those waiting to fish Sulphurs in June may well be disappointed as we’ve had sulphurs for over three weeks now along the Gunpowder river. Small cream midges in the #20 range and caddis sized #16 to 18 are also accounting for more than a few fish. We just received some button parachute emergers and quill bodied spinners that the fish are clobbering! Want to trick wild fish? Check the muffin tins and be sure to pick up some 7x while you’re at it… Thanks to …

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Cloudveil 8X Grippy Shoes and Sulphurs!

Thanks to Aaron for the following stream report and review of the Cloudveil 8x grippy boots. Theaux- Shoes worked great and were super comfy. I put them through hiking, mud, gravel, boulders, flat water and fast water. Definitely worth the switch from the Chotas. Had a great afternoon and evening of fishing. Saw only one or two other anglers and did well. I had a few fish right off the bat on a size 18 Olive X Caddis above and before the riffle past the bridge abutments. Switched to a HEAVILY hackled split tailed dun and worked the riffle, picking up several NICE browns. I …

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