South Fork, August 24th, 2021

Flow out of Palisades Dam was reduced to 10800 cfs (now11700 cfs at Heise, 6940 cfs at Lorenzo. ) yesterday. This brings the river closer to safer walk-in wading conditions where normal flow out of the dam for this date is about 8800 cfs. Fish the river early in the day to enjoy the mutant golden stone activity. Otherwise terrestrial insect patterns with and without a bead head nymph dropper seems to work well up and down the river. Later in the day,switch to caddis life cycle patterns and also enjoy the reduced boat traffic during evening hours..