( number one son-Master Peter , just turned 13 and 6 foot tall, with his first nice brown on a swinging down-and-across wet fly Iso wiggle nymph.Petusz is a upcoming world class soccer player and just did the "golden boot award" at last weekend' largest Michigan travel team soccer tournament by scoring 4 goals in three games-yes I'm bragging!!!)
( a pre- dusk nice brown taken on an Iso wiggle nymph)
( ISONYCHIA BICOLOR)
( my version of the Senyo Iso wiggle)It has been a great week of cool weather, rain( more coming in the next 4 days thank God!) and hatches- you basically have everything from "soup to nuts".
Last night saw good numbers of Isonychia mayflies-big size 10 bicolor.
Here is the line-up
River from Dam to Thornapple-tons of gray drakes, zillions of cinnamon caddis, Pteronarycus big stones
Thornapple-Anderson Flats- Isos, sulphers,cahills,olives,caddis,drakes, big stones-also tons of salmon fry which the big trout are chasing at dark-which for big smashing surface rises!!!!
Water up-1800 cfs.temp back down to 17 C.