The Dream Stream is somewhat mysterious. The fish appear, disappear and reappear. "Cookie Cutter" Cutthroats are numerous. I am not sure if they have been there all along, even in the high Spring floods, or if they moved in from above or from the reservoir below. The Dream Stream has had problems in recent decades of the fish not remaining. Stocking programs seem to largely fail even after all the habitat improvements were in place. But now, after we had record flows that blew out a lot of the habitat improvement structures/logs, a good population of fish are hanging in the lower meanders where habitat improvement structures were
never placed.
Regardless, we have been enjoying some good dry fly fishing on the lower section. Fish are mainly taking Tricos during the morning hatch but we have also been doing well on bigger flies. Amy's Ants, hoppers and yellow Sallies have been producing. The conditions are perfect to throw some type of double dry fly rig.
The usual nymphing rigs are also working: San Juan worms, RS2's, Zebra midges are all taking fish.
It will be interesting to see what shapes up, (or moves up and down) this Fall. You might turn around and be staring at a 30 inch Brown that just chased away the 14 inch Cutthroat you just landed.
