Nov. 20 & 21, 2016 Decker’s Fishing Update

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Hi there my friends!

Getting right to the current South Platte River conditions, let’s take a look at the flows. Below the dam at Cheesman, were at 49.6 (cfs), with Decker’s and Trumbull at approximately 55-60(cfs). Clarity is improving, but with the low levels you’re bound to be cleaning your flies quite often! Space on the river has been plentiful, as the first season snow kept a few people away, allowing for some excellent choices of prime holes to fish over the last couple of days. With that being said, when I did fish, I spent the last two days fishing from Nighthawk to Decker’s. Sight fishing at times, running nymph rigs through faster, shallower water at others, I was able to catch several fish in each location with just a few tosses of my selected set-up. Using my standard of late, the three-fly nymph rig, with an attractor egg, followed with a rainbow warrior, trailing a BWO-emerger, I did well. On the dry side of things, it wasn’t so simple yesterday, but this evening was my best out of the last two on the dry flies, as I was able to catch about 6 fish on two different set-ups. The first deal that worked was the single, size #22 parachute, thrown upstream and diagonal to some sipping fish on a bubble line, and the other successful dry combination was the BWO, with another bug, a small grey rs-2, trailing about 14 inches behind the BWO. Another couple of smaller bugs worth mentioning that have been working well for me have been the red and black zebra midge, bead-headed rojo midge, and the purple juju.  All of these flies and more can be found at Flies & Lies, stop in and stock up on their full selection. Another bug that I hadn’t used in a week or two was the Chocolate Thunder. Unfortunately, the only one that I had I ended up swimming away with the big brown that bro me off!  Well, that’s it for the update my friends. Hoping to head out tomorrow to do some fishing downstream, near the Platte River Campground. For more information about all the campgrounds in our area, visit http://www.reserveamerica.com. Today’s picture gallery is a few from the last couple of days, plus some very special shots of a new friend and young biologist in the making, Evelyn! The two of us were on a science mission today to turn over some rocks and identify what’s in the river. Hopefully by tomorrow we’ll have them all identified and we’ll share our results! In the meantime, enjoy the pictures!