September 3, 2016 Fishing Report

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Good Morning Everyone!!

Let’s just begin with me saying that I’ve not seen the fish this active in quite awhile!!  Each morning, I ride my road bike twenty miles along the South Platte River, from Decker’s to Trubull, and then back.  Yesterday morning, as I was making the return leg of the trip, riding through the Scraggy View section of the River, which is about 6 miles downstream from Decker’s, I rode directly through a Trico hatch that was the size of a small cloud!  Trying my best to look for rising fish while traveling at 25 miles an hour on a 1 inch tire can make things a little hairy at times, but I honestly saw fish rising the entire ten miles back from Nighthawk to Trumbull.  After returning to Trubull, at about 10am, I made my way down to the river to find one of the guides from Trouts Fly-Shop, http://www.troutsflyfishing.com. The Tricos were still coming off, but nymphing seemed to be the way to go at this point. Today’s picture gallery has a few shots of the fish they caught yesterday. This morning, below Cheeseman, we’ve got a flow of 281 cfs, with a reading of 290 cfs at the Trumbull station.  The dry-fly action really begins to pick up around dark, so if you’re brave enough to navigate the willows when it’s pitch black, and the nocturnal creatures don’t freak you out,  try your hand at throwing a streamer to the bank when the evening feed is full swing! You may be surprised of how aggressive the big browns get during the moonlight feeding frenzy! The usual suspects have been producing, but we have been throwing a few different flies in the last couple days. You can’t seem to go wrong lately with the Sparkle wing, grey RS-2, Chocolate Thunder, Olive Split-case, pat’s rubber legs, and of course the ever popular red and black zebra midge.  Some of the newer bugs we had success with yesterday were the Red fire midge, size 22-14, red Pheasant Tail size 20 as a middle bug, and the one that I watched take fish over and over again, was the Rainbow Warrior.  More to come this evening, as we will be heading out to fish in just a little bit! In the meantime, have a great Labor Day Weekend and enjoy today’s picture gallery form the beautiful South Platte River Valley, Decker’s, Colorado!

Chris