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No real secrets to share… a good drift at the correct depth will catch a lot of fish on the Guad. As the season progresses many of the trout will wisen up and the fishery can become pretty technical with light tippet and small flys. As a very general rule of thumb, a lot of folks will fish trashy flies (worms, eggs, mops) in the early and mid-season. By February some of the more experienced anglers will be catching their fish on midges and small soft hackles. But, for the most part, you can catch fish all year long on a good San Juan Worm.
Good luck!
Super helpful! Thank you, sir.
We need new functionality on this forum… GIFS. Imagine the power of Jimbo’s drums if we had a GIF of him doing a little rain dance.
Looking forward to another season!
Here is a pretty fish from my last trip.
Yes! I was really impressed with the quality of the fish (I fished last week for the first time this season). I know everyone is still fishing trashy flies, but I caught half of my fish on a size 22 midge, including a couple of holdovers.
Also, got to meet Scott on the water who has been having lots of early-season success too. There aren’t tons of fish yet so I think it’s wise to keep moving and cover water if you aren’t seeing any signs of fish.
Haylon, I was curious about the bows spawning behavior and asked an acquaintance who is a fish biologist about them.
“Many of them are broodfish that were close to spawning when stocked. Some of those actually DO spawn, although few reproduce successfully due to eggs washing out or anglers wading through riffles. But river conditions in the Guad make egg maturation and fry survival a very low probability.”
My assumption with these freshly stocked fish has been that it is erratic behavior from confused fish (since water temps probably arent right and typically bows begin to spawn when days grow longer – late winter/early spring). Very cool to learn that these spawning broodfish can contribute to the population this early albeit with low success rates. I’m going to tread more carefully around gravel beds and look out for those redds! Thanks for the reminder.
JC – that’s smart. I bet the slotted bead (or the inverting tungsten beads) tied with the weight opposite the point would work brilliantly. I’m going to try that.
So which GRTU poster is a Flylords miner? Wiscoy is the obvious choice, right?
Congrats on that trout Bryant! That is a great feeling.
JC – how do those squirmies ride in the water? I’ve had mixed results putting the tb in the middle of the shank (in terms of snagging bottom).
Also, this is the place to give yourself a shameless plug right? If any of you are familiar with the media/conservation group Flylords, they posted my San Juan Worm picture on their Instagram this week, which is pretty cool because they have over 1/4 million followers (the same picture I posted on this thread). However, they did not contact me to ask permission to use my photo… so I reported them… jk.
I fish those eggs, worms, and mops with class gentlemen. Pinky up and monocle on.
Looks good Bryant! I can’t keep up with all the new materials either. Perdigons are very effective on certain stretches of our river. When the trout are looking for small bugs in fast/deep water… you can’t beat it. You gotta love the simplicity too.
This is as easy as it gets and will catch plenty of fish on the Guad. The extra wraps around the eye are just for fun; we will see how it fishes.
J.C. I volunteer as your fly caddie!
Yes! The obsession only gets worse ( or better depending on how you look at it). I started selling flys for fun and so that my wife wouldn’t give me the side-eye when I spent $100 on a beautiful bird skin that I “needed”. But now the more flys I sell, the more stuff I get to buy. It’s a vicious cycle, ha. If you want a picture of how obsessive and crazy fly tyers are go pick up a copy of “The Feather Thief” by Kirk Johnson. It is a very entertaining read.
Post some pics when you start tying again Bryant! I’d love for this board to be more active this season, especially on the fly tying front. It gives me another fishy outlet when I cannot make it to the river.
Dude… the ribbed perdigon/thread Frenchie with the small purple collar… killer man. I love that.
These are just iPhone shots with a super cheap ($35) clip-on macro lens from Amazon! I post these pictures on Instagram and always feel like I’m getting away with something when people think I’m using a nice camera setup.
@Trey yea, you clarified in your second post that size 12 was your go-to, ha. That being said… I will be tying that size 22 mop fly and posting it on this forum for posterity 🙂
I appreciate the compliment! I don’t make it to the river nearly as often as I would like, so I just tie every day. I made a fun little side hustle out of it last year and it has been pretty cool tying for other folks.
Here is a box I made last month for myself (a recent colorado trip). Photobomb incoming
It would be fun to resurrect the fly-tying forum on this page. Maybe even have a few get-togethers for the folks who like to tie.
