May 2010

High Water Fishing Report

May 30, 2010 Fishing Reports Read the full article →

The river is now steady at 9500 cfs. The trout have been eating sowbugs aggressively. Fish a gray or tan Ray Charles, or any number of sowbug patterns. San Juan Worms in various colors have come on strong in the last few days. Midge pupa and Baetis nymphs are still working too. You need a [...]

Living On Tungsten Time

About a month ago, the Bureau of Reclamation was betting heavily that this was going to be another low-water year. Snow pack surveys supported this theory, although it didn’t explain why the Bureau insisted on maintaining record-high lake levels throughout the month of April. It is common for this river drainage to receive abundant moisture [...]

Bighorn Fly Fishing: Big Flows Have Returned

May 26, 2010 Fishing Reports Read the full article →

Jeff From Colorado with a nice rainbow caught on a #14 grey ray charles The nymph fishing yesterday and today was really good in certain areas of the river. The river went up to 8750 cfs at 4pm today and is going up another 750 cfs tomorrow (5/27) to 9500 cfs. Fish the soft deeper [...]

Bighorn Trout Fishing: Cold, Wet & Rainy

May 24, 2010 Fishing Reports Read the full article →

mmmmmm…….tasty streamer The wet weather moved in today. Nymphing remained solid in the morning with sowbugs. My clients and I decided to fish streamers in the afternoon and had a decent day moving some nice fish on bright streamers. The rain is scheduled to stick around for another day. The river went up 500 cfs [...]

Great Nymph Fishing

May 23, 2010 Fishing Reports Read the full article →

Mike and Maunsel with a nice double both fish caught on sowbugs The river has been stable for the past few days and the nymph fishing has been great. Sowbugs are still the bug of choice. Had a nice pod of fish eating baetis at about 10:30 today which was a nice change. Tomorrow we [...]

Fishing Report: Sowbugs

May 21, 2010 Fishing Reports Read the full article →

The river is now at 6500 cfs and stable. We are losing the ability to wade fish with every bump in water at this point. The fish are becoming more concentrated in certain areas with the higher flows and boat fishing has been really good. Ray Charles in grey and pink have been effective patterns, [...]

Bighorn Fishing Report: River Scheduled To Rise

May 19, 2010 Fishing Reports Read the full article →

Bill From South Carolina With A Nice Rainbow On His First fishing Trip Fishing was quite good again today. Sowbugs and midges in the morning and sowbugs and baetis in the afternoon. With the cloud cover and light rain today a few fish were even feeding on the surface. The river is scheduled to rise [...]

Bighorn Fishing Report

May 18, 2010 Fishing Reports Read the full article →

It’s never to late too start fly fishing 79 year old Jim with a nice brown on his first fishing trip Things have been interesting out there. The water came up to 6,000 cfs on 5/17, then they dropped it back to 5,700 cfs that same afternoon. A lot of moss and debris was dislodged [...]

Fishing Report

May 17, 2010 Fishing Reports Read the full article →

The river made another small bump up to 6000 cfs around 10am today. The small increase sent more moss and debris floating in the water column but the river should stabilize and clear up by the morning. As far as I know there is not another bump in flows scheduled to take place but it [...]

Bighorn Fishing Report: Changing Flows

May 15, 2010 Fishing Reports Read the full article →

John From California With A Nice Bow May 14, 2010 Mark Gervase Photo The river bumped up to 5500 cfs yesterday and the river became a weedy mess and fishing conditions were tough. Today was a different story the river stabilized, the moss cleared out on the upper 3 miles and the nymph fishing was [...]

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