We, we did not get fishing until about 1:00pm so it was not prime time. Fishing was not spectacular but my group of 3 beginners managed to net some fish. It is always a pleasure to get a beginner into their first fish. The water is still low flowing around 50cfs.
It is almost funny how it seems that the same old flies work and don't work. It just depends. But we took fish on the famous brown san juan worm, RS2,and a size 20 bead head pheasant tail . The pheasant tail nymph I use is a pattern that my friend Ron Jagger has used effectively over the years. It is a variation from a pattern that Stan Benton developed. Instead of using actual pheasant tails to wrap around and form the body of the fly, pheasant tail colored micro-tubing is used over orange thread. A copper bead is used and a little bit of peacock icedub forms the thorax behind the bead. There is really not much to it. I also tie a variation of it using some bushy hares ear behind the bead (especially when caddis start coming off).
Another strange thing is that I saw some fish spawning. Maybe it was some late rainbows or confused browns or some Suckers, with the Rainbows and Browns feeding on the eggs. It was hard to tell what was really going on and besides we left them alone. I just thought it was odd to see fish spawning in early June.
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