Local fishing continued to improve this past week in all directions. The Green River is continuing to drop and clear each day, with great hatches still pouring off. The mornings have seen thick grey and green drake activity, with stoneflies and PMD's in the afternoons. Floating is still the best option...the river is still a little high for wading on the BLM sites. The South Fork is now fishing with much better consistency. I guided through the canyon and upper sections this past week. Fishing was good on both. We picked up fish with everything we threw at them. Nymphing with strike indicators worked well; a rubberleg stonefly on top, with a yellow sally nymph trailer behind. Large stonefly dries, with beadhead droppers also picked up fish. By early afternoons, look for fish on PMD's feeding on top in the riffles. Although the river has only just recently turned on, these fish are already quite educated. We had many lookers and refusals on our big dry flies; the larger cutthroat in the riffles were also somewhat picky already. When I pulled out at Spring Creek bridge on Thursday, I counted over thirty driftboat trailers in the parking lot, so don't expect to have the South Fork to yourself anytime soon. I fished a marathon day with Stan Czarniak and Brian "This Is Fly" Hodges near Pinedale yesterday. Big rainbows on drakes...very fun. Don't miss the latest issue of TIF at http://www.thisisfly.com/. More soon!
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