Fishing Reports

Three Creeks and Lost Lake are both good. The callibaetis hatch is strong along with good to great evening travelling sedge hatches. Chironomids, Leeches and Damsels are also suggested. Up at 3 Creeks the ants (including flying ants) are also productive.

Between me and the other shop guys and regualr Metolius friends I have to say we just ended what was one heck of a good week of catching fish. The neat thing is the catch was spread out between all of us from the Headwater area down below Bridge 99 a little and were caught on all sorts of stuff. Here is the list: PMD's, Blue Wing Olives, Golden Stone dries and Nymphs, Comparaduns, Soft Hackle PT's and Rusty Spinner's. Probably more than that, but that is what I remember from the week. No doubt it will be all the same bugs for the next several weeks!
Yes, Bull Trout fishing is good and streamers are taking some excellent fish.

We are seeing some good fishing in the upper stretches and middle stretches of the Mac and we are catching a number of fish on Dries which adds to the fun.

Mornings and Evenings. Stay late! Look for big caddis and tiny cream mayflies, callibaetis and damsels and don't forget your ants and some leech patterns.

During the day you'll see periods of hatch activety including PMD, caddis, Yellow Sally, Little Green Stones and terrestrials. For non hatch times you can still get a fish to the surface on a Lady Di but you'll really want to try a Rufus, a Lead Eye Egg and some sort of a dropper behind them like a Roxy Rainbow, Kyle's Yellow Sally, PT, serendipity, and pretty much any BWO or PMD nymph you can think of.
Evening fishing is even better with more caddis coming out and good chances of rusty spinner falls right before dark.

Here is the Trout Report followed by the Steelhead report:
We are having good days on the Lower from Warm Springs to Trout Creek. Throughout the day we are getting most of the fish on Caddis Pupa and small bead head nymphs. In the evening the fish are coming up to PMD's, PED's, Caddis and Rusty Spinners.

We are into our 2010 steelhead season with a couple of Mack's to the Mouth trips under our belts. The fish are just coming in but it looks like it is going to be another great year. Last week the Steelhead count was 244% above last years count (year to date) at Bonneville Dam. Anyway, we got 12 fish on the 2nd trip and 4 on the 1st so it is a good start and only going to improve from here.