The salmon fly hatch appears to have come off about a week earlier than it normally does and the fishing right now is off the hook. If you can't find fish feeding on the big bugs right now you are definitely doing something wrong. My brother B.J., his buddy Will and I went out yesterday for about six hours to get a little trout fishing in. We started off nymphing but realized quickly, when fish ate our nymphs upon touching the water that they were were interested in adults. I pulled my dry fly rod out to just test the water and proceeded to hook 6 fish without moving upstream. From that point on we fished stone dries with tremendous success. At one spot toward the end of the day we pulled into a favorite spot of mine decided trade off the rod after each hooked fish. My brother was up first and pitched his dry six inches off a nice grass line and a fish exploded on the fly within seconds. He handed to rod off to Will and he pitched the fly into the exact same spot and a fish literally came all the way out of the water to eat it. My turn came up and I pitched it further up along the grass line right off the back end of an over hanging tree and a fish damn near ripped the rod out of my hands and tore off to center river and an epic battle ensued and I managed to pull in a beautiful 17 inch redside. We continued trading the rod off, fishing in the same spot without moving for another dozen trout. It is a rare moment when you get hook a bunch of nice trout on dries without moving. We called it a day at that point and settled into a few cold beers reveling in an amazing day of fishing.
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