09-08-2004, 02:05 PM
Arkansas River - September 4th, 2004
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FISHING: Good
Stream Flow [[url "http://waterdata.usgs.gov/co/nwis/uv?07094500"]click here[/url]]
Flow: 240 Salida
Clarity: Excellent
Water Temperature: Mid 50’s
Major Food Organisms: Midges, caddis, pmd’s, red quills, and yellow sally stoneflies
Hatches: Midges, caddis, pmd’s, red quills, and yellow sally stoneflies
14 Day Forecast: Look for flows to continue to drop and fishing to improve by the day.
Tips and Other Information: Plan on excellent fishing between Salida and Granite. The river is finally shaping up, and the walk-wade angler can get around quite easily. Dry fly fishing is picking up with caddis and “attractors” and dry-dropper rigs have been effective around the islands, back channels, and the edges of the stream. Last week a #16 Goddard Caddis dropped with a #18 Mighty Mite Baetis simply hammered fish. Nymphing has been very good too with an assortment of small bead heads trailed with a Mighty Mite Baetis, or Mercury Flashback Pheasant Tail in a size #18. Things couldn’t be much better in the Arkansas Valley. If the water is still too high for your “liking”, move up river above Granite where the flow is just about right! Heavy rain-fall may impact the clarity of the stream on any given day.
Effective Patterns: #18 Bead Head Breadcrust, #20-22 Mercury Baetis, #16 Puterbaugh Caddis, #16 Hi Vis Caddis, #16 Elk Hair Caddis, #10 Cone Head Black Bugger, #10 Golden Stonefly, #10 Barr’s Tung-Stone, #20-22 Sparkle Wing RS II, #18 Bead Head Flashback Pheasant Tail, #18-22 Barr Emerger #18 (baetis), #18-22 Black, Blue, Red, and Chartreuse Copper Johns.
supplied by: [url "http://www.fisheyesoup.com/redir.php?recKey=92,re"]Blue Quill Angler[/url]
FISHING: Good
Stream Flow [[url "http://waterdata.usgs.gov/co/nwis/uv?07094500"]click here[/url]]
Flow: 240 Salida
Clarity: Excellent
Water Temperature: Mid 50’s
Major Food Organisms: Midges, caddis, pmd’s, red quills, and yellow sally stoneflies
Hatches: Midges, caddis, pmd’s, red quills, and yellow sally stoneflies
14 Day Forecast: Look for flows to continue to drop and fishing to improve by the day.
Tips and Other Information: Plan on excellent fishing between Salida and Granite. The river is finally shaping up, and the walk-wade angler can get around quite easily. Dry fly fishing is picking up with caddis and “attractors” and dry-dropper rigs have been effective around the islands, back channels, and the edges of the stream. Last week a #16 Goddard Caddis dropped with a #18 Mighty Mite Baetis simply hammered fish. Nymphing has been very good too with an assortment of small bead heads trailed with a Mighty Mite Baetis, or Mercury Flashback Pheasant Tail in a size #18. Things couldn’t be much better in the Arkansas Valley. If the water is still too high for your “liking”, move up river above Granite where the flow is just about right! Heavy rain-fall may impact the clarity of the stream on any given day.
Effective Patterns: #18 Bead Head Breadcrust, #20-22 Mercury Baetis, #16 Puterbaugh Caddis, #16 Hi Vis Caddis, #16 Elk Hair Caddis, #10 Cone Head Black Bugger, #10 Golden Stonefly, #10 Barr’s Tung-Stone, #20-22 Sparkle Wing RS II, #18 Bead Head Flashback Pheasant Tail, #18-22 Barr Emerger #18 (baetis), #18-22 Black, Blue, Red, and Chartreuse Copper Johns.