Saturday, August 8, 2009

Blackfoot River Report

Water off color
Air temp: 60
Bug activity: some PMD's, very minimal.
Usually the Blackfoot River is low and clear this time of year, but this has been anything but a normal year. Today the Blackfoot was still off color and running a little high. The narrows is really the place to be as the water that is usually too low to fish is actually quite nice right now. There were good numbers of active fish closer to the National Forest boundary on the west end of the river. I found some really nice fish in this section, they were feeding just subsurface on what looked like emerging PMD's. I really would expect for the river to clear a little more in the next few weeks and for the fish to get really active as the nights get colder and the hoppers get bigger.

2 comments:

John H said...

What ya throwing at them?

Kevin said...

PMD's, small nymphs and some p. adams. I expect for the hoppers to be ready soon.