General Fishing Report for June 8, 2019

Hello anglers!  I trust that everyone is having a great start to the summer season. We’ve still been dealing with rain and higher water but fishing has remained strong on the trout front and the pike fishing is improving. Look at trout fishing in two ways, with high, stained flows and dropping and clearing water. Streamers seem to be getting the most looks during the higher flows still. Color is a personal preference but white and olive are doing the best. If you go for a color change while out fishing, consider doing a complete opposite switch, say from light to dark or similar.  Sometimes that can be a trigger to get a fish to commit. Pattern is also personal preference but keep a couple different sizes handy and having flies that can move in the water on the pause help too. Think patterns with marabou, buck tail, artic fox, etc. 

With dropping and clearing water, nymphing has been paying the bills. Hatches have been getting stronger as well.  Yesterday morning I saw at least four different species of bugs around the water. A big mayfly (I think March brown but didn’t id), a smaller sulphur, yellow sally stonefly and a...