Bighorn River Fishing Report 7/25

It is fully game on!  PMD’s and Caddis have exploded the past few days.  Water temps remain in the low to upper 50’s (depending on the time of the day).  Dries, Nymphs, Streamers, it’s about as good as Summer fishing gets right now!  No hoot owl restrictions for us!

We’re seeing a couple good windows throughout the river about 9-10 AM and then again late afternoon.  There are so many bugs the fish have been pretty particular.  Instead of switching patterns, persistence pays off big time right now.  Keep throwing over the fish you want to catch.  It might take 2 casts, it might take 25…

Subsurface, a variety of PMD nymphs (Splitcases, TNT’s, Wondernymphs), Frenchies, PT’s and Poodle Sniffers are getting the job done.

Our hopper fishing is on the backburner a bit with the fish tuning into the Caddis and PMD’s, so matching the hatch is a must for the dry fly deal!