the water is very clear and running around 350-400 CFS.
fished below salida saturday morning. the fly shop said there was dry fly action but after trying various drys for an hour with zero rises,went to nymphing. immediatly started to catch fish on Barr Emergers. Also had on a size 18 Bead Head Pheasant tail and through out the day caught most on that.also got some on a Gold Ice nymph.
fished above Salida in the afternoon . ended up landing around 20. lost many more and had lots of hits.saw a few fish rising but not enough to switch often.
sunday was slower than saturday but the Gold Ice was working the best and the barr emerger. Had 6 fish in 3 hours. most were browns, caught 3 rainbowa and got 1 cutthroat(!). First cut i ever got out of the Ark. didn't even know any were in there. Fishing should be good from now until Late october. Some people were Hopper-dropper fishing with some results. I tried that Sunday and Had a few hits but it was few and far between.
fished below salida saturday morning. the fly shop said there was dry fly action but after trying various drys for an hour with zero rises,went to nymphing. immediatly started to catch fish on Barr Emergers. Also had on a size 18 Bead Head Pheasant tail and through out the day caught most on that.also got some on a Gold Ice nymph.
fished above Salida in the afternoon . ended up landing around 20. lost many more and had lots of hits.saw a few fish rising but not enough to switch often.
sunday was slower than saturday but the Gold Ice was working the best and the barr emerger. Had 6 fish in 3 hours. most were browns, caught 3 rainbowa and got 1 cutthroat(!). First cut i ever got out of the Ark. didn't even know any were in there. Fishing should be good from now until Late october. Some people were Hopper-dropper fishing with some results. I tried that Sunday and Had a few hits but it was few and far between.