I’m on spring break, so crappy weather wasn’t a deterent today (even though it was brutally cold and windy ).
Water levels were good and clarity was excellent. Fish have returned to their normal feeding lies after a few weeks of unsettled water conditions.
I fished a standard scud with a #18 PT trailer most of the morning into the early afternoon hours. A brief BWO hatch came off around 1:30, and the trout were all over them. I fished a #18 pink post BWO, as well as a #18 foam post BWO with decent success. I could have probably fished a #16, though, as the naturals were not small.
I moved upstream from the risers and found very few other rising fish. I switched over to a nymph rig again with a cdc emerger trailer and took some nice fish that had moved out of their morning lies of the tailouts and were up in some faster water.
It wasn’t an ideal day to fish by any means, but it was worth deicing guides every tenth cast .