Cosby Thomas joined me for a two day trip that his children gave him for his 60th birthday. Cosby meet me here at the shop around 8am and we headed down to the river to brake in the new Winston he had just picked up at the shop. So we headed down around the Weirs dams to work on some casting. We managed to catch about 5 or 6 down there, but Cosby missed three times as many as that. The we headed down stream to fish the Sulphur hatch before the water came up. There were some fish rising when we got to the water, but no Sulphurs on the water yet. So that means Midges and Blackflies. So we put on a Sulphur Comparadun and a Blackfly larva. We caught a few fish on that set-up, and missed a few. Then I started seeing a few more Sulphurs flying around and the fish were starting to rise more regular. So I took the blackfly larva off and put on a Pheasant Tail. As soon as I put on the PT the fish start popping it along with the dry. Cosby caught fish pretty regular for the next 45 minutes or so before the water came up. We both saw a really nice fish rising so we worked our way up to get a good cast up to them. As we where doing that Cosby caught a nice 15″ Brown that just gave him a fit on the 8′ 4wt BIIt. Then we moved on up and got some good cast to the bigger Brown that was rising we got him to take the dry once but missed him. After that we hit the head of the run and Cosby 5 or 6 fish in a row. Then the water started coming up and it was time for us to get out of there. So we came up to the shop eat lunch and hooked the boat up to float the afternoon.

 During the afternoon float the trout we feeding on Sulphur duns. Cosby caught a good many fish on dry and missed or broke off a number of good fish. I am not really sure how many fish got to hand, but we where steadily hooking and landing fish all afternoon.

It was a great day on the water.

Matt Champion

Champion Outfitters Guide Service