The stars aligned for me this afternoon, and I stumbled upon quite a few fish chasing brown stones that were skittering across the water. I rigged up a brown sz14 cdc and elk and did pretty good. There were also a few different sizes and colors of midges out, along with a few of the small black stoneflies.
Midges, midges, midges in SEPA. LBSs love my beard for some reason, but the trout have not found them. Saw BWOs a couple times, even had fish take them one day.
I've seen some sporadic Little Black Stonflies. Been doing pretty well with the midging here in the SE part of the State. Lots of fish feeding on midges, mostly right in the film from what I can tell.
Does anyone else think this is going to be an odd year regarding hatch timing and overlapping? Assuming we get enough rain throughout the Spring and Summer to keep the creeks full.
Black stoneflies here in Lewistown, along with plenty of midges, and a few caddis. Actually did reasonably well during the warm spell last week with a poly wing caddis I tie, and a #22 purple midge pupa as a dropper. I never see trout actually eating stone flies for whatever reason.