The Bitteroot is hanging around 1000 cfs at Bell and clarity is day to day. Cloudy days have been gooooood, but you can still find fish willing to eat in the sunshine. Skwalas, March browns, and baetis are still the top items on the menu  For all you streamer junkies, the fish seem to be looking for a bigger meal lately. Smaller, flashy patterns have been moving a lot of fish.

Double dutch bugs, flush floater skwalas, stubby chubbies, rogue skwalas, olive summer stones, Amy's ants in olive, and bugmeisters are all good choices for skwalas. D&D March brown cripples, rusty spinners, Flick's March brown, mimic may March browns, and parachute pheasant tails are what you need for March browns. For baetis use thorax BWO's, Wilcox's micro mays, smoke jumper baetis, and olive parachutes. Underneath use pheasant tails, pearl green lightning bugs, San Juan worms, perdigons, Pat's rubber legs, jigstones, and hare's ear nymphs. Dirty hippies, sparkle minnows, bighorn buggers, sculpzillas, kreelex minnows, and sex dungeons have worked for us.

 

 

HATCHES/Flies: Midges, skwalas, march browns, baetis, grey drakes A Review of the Winston Fly Rod

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