05-22-2009, 02:32 AM
If the water is still quite high and fast as most places in the mountains are now I always stick with tungsted b.h. nymphs, the bigger the better. As the water starts to come down then downsizing the nymphs and fishing dries can be more productive. But after many years of drought we can forget how long it can take for these streams to settle down during a truly normal snowpack year. I thing the bigger heavier nymphs just get down deeper into the limited strike zone and the fish only gets a split second to decide to go after or not. Yesterday up above 7000 ft I caught a couple dozen trout on a single size 10 prince nymph. Finished up behind a group of 3 trying dries and throwing spinners and rapalas who all had gotten skunked.
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