caddis

  The caddis hatches on both the South Platte and the Blue have been excellent over the past weeks.  The Blue below Green Mountain Res in particular has a thick hatch starting about 10:30 am and lasting as long as 5 pm, with plenty of other bugs  evident all day.  Fish seemed to rise best from 11-2 and were twice as likely to take a dry if it was skated across the water rather than dead drifted.  Nymphing the riffles during the hatch was very productive and we fished most of the day with dry dropper rigs, a PMX with tungsten caddis droppers.  The lower flows made the wade fishing excellent and we fished the river downstream from the dam almost 2 miles with no body else in sight.