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Thank you to all who shop with us, we truly appreciate your support. Here’s to a wonderful and fish filled 2020! Note: We will be closed as normal this Tuesday and Wednesday. We’ll be back as normal Thursday the 2nd. Have a happy & safe new year.
The river’s up to 229 cfs at Falls road after overnight rain. This, along with the dark dreary weather, presents an ideal situation for those wanting to fish streamers. Thanks to Jim for the photo of the colored up fish caught recently doing just that. We’re open normal weekday hours both today & tomorrow for Christmas hours.
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Hey Bark at the Moon! Apparently only Ozzy could get us through a Friday full of boxes from Patagonia. The result is we have surplus of lightweight, high tech, long lasting warm gear just in time for the low 20’s. We would not think of hitting the river this time of year without a pair of R1 Fishing Gloves, a River Salt Jacket over a Micro-Puff Hoody or Micro-Puff Jacket and an R1 pant or Shelled Insulator Pant under waders. https://www.backwaterangler.com/product/patagonia-r1-fishing-gloves/ https://www.backwaterangler.com/product/patagonia-ms-river-salt-jacket/ https://www.backwaterangler.com/product/patagonia-ms-micro-puff-hoody/ https://www.backwaterangler.com/product/ms-patagonia-micro-puff-jacket-carbon/ https://www.backwaterangler.com/product/patagonia-r1-pants/ Patagonia M’s Shelled Insulator Pants
With snow flurries greeting and an idling UPS truck full of cold weather gear Filson we rang in Friday with plenty of cheer. With Saturdays low forecast to be around around 22 F we think that the Vintage Flannel Shirts, Light Weight Alaska Guide Shirts, Ultralight Vests, Ultralight Jackets, Ridgeway Fleece and Ridgeway Jackets have arrived just in time. https://www.backwaterangler.com/product/vintage-flannel-work-shirt/ http://www.backwaterangler.com/product/filson-lightweight-alaskan-guide-shirt/ https://www.backwaterangler.com/product/ultralight-vest-dark-tan/ https://www.backwaterangler.com/product/filson-ultralight-jacket-2/ https://www.backwaterangler.com/product/filson-ridgeway-fleece-vest/ https://www.backwaterangler.com/product/filson-ridgeway-fleece-jacket/
The Gunpowder River is flowing at 321 CFs and is 60 degrees F. The upper river is clearing and dropping nicely. Streamer sink- tip techniques should move quite a few fish in these flows. A better bet if you’d like to hook and land a few would be to seek out the flat water and spend some time fishing Olives and midge emergers in the #18-22 range. It’s not to late to fish a large hopper-and dropper rig leaping frogging the boulder pools and covering more water. We’ve found a lot of new folks fishing right on top of each other in the past few …