General Fishing Report July 4, 2019

Happy Fourth of July anglers!  As if on cue, warm weather is in full force this week. It should go with out saying, but your thermometer should be getting a workout now!  As a reminder, if you are practicing catch and release with trout, water temps should be below 70 degrees.  There is plenty of cold water out there, so I suggest leaving the stuff that you know gets warm until we get more significant cool weather.  It’s also a good idea if you are hitting some water that might get warm later in the day to go super early as that is when the coolest water temps are to be found.  Otherwise, fishing has been solid.  I had a great guide trip last weekend, with fish ignoring the dry part of the dry/dropper so we went to the tight line rig for most of the day.  It was mostly wild fish that we got into, and they seemed to be keyed in on smaller mayfly nymph imitations like iron lotus and Perdigons (Quilldigons). I did see a few smaller mayfly adults in the air that day.  In addition, we’ve been seeing a bunch of yellow and lime green sallies on our mountain waters.  The nymphs of these stoneflies are super slender as well.  One of the other...