South Fork 8-20-09

Because of hot weather irrigation requests, the flow out of Palisades Dam has been raised to about 8900 cfs.  This poses no problem for fishing.   Riffles up and down the river are now great places to enjoy rising trout. Try PMD and slate cream dun life cycle patterns during daytime, and caddisfly life cycle during evenings.  If you fish during evenings, be sure to have streamer patterns in your fly box.   If you prefer fishing banks; hopper, beetle, ant, and chernobyl patterns are producing very well throughout the river.