Small Streams, September 29th, 2020

Reservoir administrators are capturing water for the next irrigation season.  This means downstream flows will decrease thus driving resident salmonids to deeper water where they find more overhead cover.  Several of our smaller streams with reservoirs are effective by these water collection actions. For the fly-fisher this means concentrating on deeper water. Streamer, weighted nymph, and woolly bugger patterns should be in the fly box.  Such as stripping these through the deep water or suspending such patterns underneath an indicator to drift through that water are effective presentation techniques.