Just got off the river. The caddis have arrived. Started fishing about 2:30 at the dam. After a couple hrs and one fish in the boat. Drifted down past the state park and saw significant caddis river right. Switched to #16 elk hair caddis with a sparse shuck and got an 19″ brown. Drifted to about Gaston’s and picked up a buddy. Went back and made four more drifts across from Copper Johns and picked up a brown on each of four drifts, all larger than the first. Caddis should be good for a couple more weeks. The flows are now reasonable (< 15,000 cfs) and barring heavier than normal rain hopefully (perhaps wishful thinking) should stay reasonable. In a few weeks we hope (a very hopeful bunch we fishermen) to see another sulfur hatch as good as last year. Sulfurs get the fish going as much as the caddis. A few weeks of sulfurs and then we can look for hopper (more accurately beetle) season, my favorite.
