General Conditions ~ Stream Conditions ~ Water Temperature
Hatches ~ Fly Patterns ~ Additional Comments
September 2, 2010
Everything's good to go on the river this morning. All the color from the rain has pretty much cleared out, and edges should be fantastic.
From Canon City to Buena Vista, we are seeing good morning activity on double nymph rigs or Hopper/dropper outfits. A BH 20 Incher trailing a red Copper John, Chartreuse Copper John, or Copperhead is working well, or drop the same smaller nymphs off a Royal PMX or a Papa Ape. The afternoons are tough unless we have clouds, but stay with the double nymph rig and you'll pick up a few fish. Evenings after 5PM are very good especially from 7 PM till dark. Tan Caddis, small Stimulators in red or orange, Royal Wulffs and a variety of other attractor dries are good. We even saw good good BWO hatches on the cloudy afternoons this week all the way down to Canon City.
Flows are now native water and should continue to drop as Fall approaches (which is now in the high country). We have beautiful water and it's still good for floating or walk/wade.
450 cfs Wellsville.....clear
REMEMBER: If you want to see flow rates on all sections of the river plus localized reports, go to our INTERACTIVE ARKANSAS RIVER MAP link at the top of the page. This is a big river and there is no such thing as a cookie cutter report.
high 40s to mid 50s
Yellow Sallies, Caddis, BWOs Red Quills, hoppers
#14-#16 Yellow Sally, #10 PMXs, #10 Red October Stimulators, #16 Yellow or tan Caddis, #16 Copperhead, #16 Red Raider Prince, #16 Chartreuse Copper John, BH Twenty Inchers, Chernobyl Ants, Hi Vis Ants, Foam Western Hopper, Para Hopper, #20 Hi Vis BWO, #20 Tungsten Black Ice Go to our Fly Pattern Recipes page
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Current fishing conditions on other Rocky Mountain waters:
