I enjoy fishing too much to risk my life at it. Death can really cut into your fishing time. - John Gierach
My Favorite Sulphur Pattern
It was two years ago when I witnessed one of the best insect hatches I've ever seen on the Swift. For most of June and a lot of July the birds (Cedar Waxwings) would start swooping along the river around 10am picking off these delicate yellowish mayflies by the thousands. I had birds come so close to me while chasing these bugs that I could feel their wings beat close to my face. One angler actually got hit in the head by one of these crazed birds. It was wonderful!!!
Yes, you can toss a dry fly BUT you will have more success with a small (size 18 to 20) soft hackle. It is the fly to use BEFORE the hatch and is the perfect emerger pattern during the hatch (remember, most surface disturbances that we see are not trout taking insects on the surface but insects just below the surface.
The State of the Rivers
Here is where we are at 6am, June 1
The Ware - 353cfs (this was the best river for the month of May)
West Branch -328cfs
Swift -46cfs
Millers - 1110cfs
EB -534cfs
We have a dry and hot week coming up so we can be thankful for the water. The Swift is fine, the EB will be fine in 24 hours, give the Ware and the West Branch until Friday and who knows about the Millers.
Beware the Awards
"The worst is when they email out of the blue to ‘congratulate’ you. Usually, they’ll want you to pop an ‘award badge’ on your site; which, embedded in the code, is a follow link. Sites like Feedspot are the absolute worst for this.
What is feedspot? It’s a site that claims to be legit but they will keep hounding you to put the badge on your site and they even replicate your content on their site without permission. I’ve emailed them several times about basically running my full blog posts on their site which they claim helps them with traffic. They still haven’t removed my site from their's!" https://thebloglancer.co.uk/
I've seen these "awards" before and I stay clear of them and their offers. They will award anyone including cat blogs, baby boomer blogs, amigurumi blogs (that's yarn art), Christian book review blogs and such with a garish gold medal which appears to be a tracking device. It's funny but some of these "ranked" blogs have very little activity with little or no new content.
This blog has had a steady growth pattern for years. Growth, in my mind, comes from page views and READER COMMENTS!!!
Praying Mantis
Book an evening trip!
Ken
9 comments:
That Sulphur has always worked on the Swift. We just need some fish in the river.
The praying mantis is unreal!!
JW
JW,
It's a bit of a mystery as to where the trout are. I know one guy who took 17 from the tree pool a week ago but that's about it.
Ken
That is because stocking a stream these days means dumping 100 rainbows into one pool only.
Why bother posting about "awards" that you have decided to decline? Doesn't make much sense...
More fly fishing content instead please
Anonymous 5:44,
I don't think you get it. The "awards" are just a bogus attempt to embed a follow link.
Ken
Hi Ken,
I fished the Swift on Wednesday and it is still running very, very low and very slow. There was a very significant sulfur hatch during the early afternoon. I've only been fishing that river about three years and I've never seen such a hatch before: they were swarming all over. I forgot my dry fly box at home, but it didn't matter. I took about 17-18 brookies on an assortment of small streamers, pheasant tail nymphs and a sulfur emerger that another angler was kind enough to give me.
Although I caught fish, I agree with the above poster that there does not appear to be as many fish as I've seen in past years.
Tom from Boston
Down river ken! Wink wink.
Hunter
Hunter,
Got It!!
Maybe DFW is reading this blog and has decided to let the Swift become more of a self sustaining brook tout (and brown trout) fishery? So all you catch and keep fisher people, nothing to see here....
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