A Welcome Monsoon

I just finished up a couple of days on the river with the Strazerri group. These guys come from San Diego a few times a year to throw some flies and enjoy Jackson. We hit the Upper South Fork yesterday pretty hard. The fishing over there is still not great. The flows remain at a pushy 13,500 cfs which make it a hard row to keep the boat where it needs to be. On top of that, the water is still very cloudy. We managed to nymph up a few fish, including a 16" Rainbow. We threw a large dry fly for the late-afternoon, and got a handful of Cutthroat to fall for it, with a 16" fish being the largest. We did not get a single fish in the riffles, which is usually the hot spot by late July. Not sure when the South Fork is going to pop.
We made our plans last night to head down to Pinedale and fish the Green today. The first day of August brought us some great weather to Western Wyoming...the Monsoon Flow. What does this mean? Well...we woke up today to thick clouds and light rain. The jet-stream changed and brought us a full day of clouds and moisture. My frequent readers probably know just how much I like cloudcover on the Green, especially after a 3-week run of sunshine and hot weather. The dry fly fishing really popped today, with plenty of Brown Trout looking up. Drakes and Chernobyl Ants did the trick. It looks like more of the Monsoon for this week, so hopefully the fishing holds up. The Snake looks like it is almost ready to go below Pacific Creek. I bet we are on it by next week. Here's my buddy Steve Mancini with a pair of beauties from today...a 21" and 20" Brown Trout that fell for dry flies in the rain. Great day today Steve! More soon!