Category: Riffle and Rise Blog

Had an incredible day of dry fly fishing with John and Doug yesterday. They caught lots of quality trout throughout the day tossing a single dry fly. It was fun!

Had the day off so I headed up to fish the Taylor River C&R stretch. Caught some really nice fish, including a very big rainbow of about 25 inches (bottom photo), all on a size 20 dry fly and a bamboo rod. (This bamboo rod is actually named “GDO” – which stands for Guide’s Day Off.) It was fun catching big trout on a single dry fly and a bamboo rod. It was a great way to spend my birthday.

Had a great day of dry fly fishing with Mitch today. Mitch is an expert fly caster and he was able to hit the spots and get the drifts all day. He landed a lot of nice wild trout on a dry fly, fishing the riffles, pockets, and banks. Love that riffle and rise!

Had a fun day on the river with Scott, Cameron, and Will up on the Taylor River at Crystal Creek yesterday. Scott caught this nice rainbow nymphing a deep run. The guys all did really well.

Adam caught this chunky cutthroat up at Taylor River Lodge (Irwin Guides) this week. It was a fun father-son trip, and his father, Joe, had a very good day as well.

Wynn had an excellent day of dry fly fishing today. She caught a lot of wild trout throwing a single dry fly in the riffles and on the banks. She did really well mending line and setting the hook, and bringing fish to the net. Nice job Wynn!

Had a really fun time this week fishing the Green Drake and PMD hatches with Will. Had some great caddis action today as well.

Zara did really well this morning fishing a dry fly with her new 7′ 3-wt. bamboo rod. We had a lot of action and she landed some really nice wild brown trout. Great job Zara!

Brian and Mike did great today at the Taylor River Lodge private stretch, catching browns, cutthroat, cutbows, and rainbows. Brian got this big cutbow here nymphing through a deep run. It was another fun Irwin Guides trip!

The rain has kept the small creeks fishing very well into July. The dry fly fishing has been excellent, with hatches of Green Drakes, PMDs, BWOs, caddis, and golden stoneflies. Had a great day yesterday with Mike catching some beautiful wild trout on dry flies.