Fishing Report May 30th

Hello my fellow fishers,
Here is a picture of one of my clients, Bill Brennan with a nice 17" Lee's Ferry rainbow. The fishing is about as good as it gets at the Ferry right now. As far as sub-surface fishing goes. The good fishing will continue through June. Towards the end of the month the cicada fishing should begin, and the fishing will be a 10 on the 1-10 scale for the month of July and into August. The fishing right now is about an 8 on the 1-10 scale. The eddie's are full of slurping rainbows, and the riffles are stacked with trout. Today I was on a bar and my client said "there must be 500 fish in a 25 yard walk along the bar". We caught several fish that were in the 18-22" range today. I had a beginner land 15 fish today, 3 of which were 18". We caught them with a full 9' nymphing rig, we caught them dry dropping, and we caught them on streamers. Its still pretty much about the midge patterns, but the tip of the week is to use live scud patterns for your bottom fly. So if we can be of service give us a call. See you soon, Rocky & Mick Lovett

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Hello all my fellow fishers. The fish are happy, the midges are hatching, and the weather is beautiful. Here is a picture of Charles Loepkey, and a beautiful 17" wild rainbow he caught first thing in the morning. He proceeded to catch one fish after another from the same spot, on the same flies until about 2:00pm. Jim Clifford is Charles's son-in-law, he did all the moving around up and down the bar, and managed to catch plenty of fish as well. At 2:00pm we went to another spot and swung some woolly buggers, and caught a few more fish. I caught an 18" on an olive semi seal leach. That concluded the day, and what a great 2 days it was, fishing with two of my good friends. Charles is 86 years young, and I admire his energy, passion and devotion to fishing and life in general. He has taught me a lot of things about fly fishing. He tied his version of a zebra midge, he used an olive bead on a #16 hook, black thread, and white wire, and put a hurtin' on the fish with that fly, both days of the trip. Its all about the midge, experiment with all the midge patterns you can, and be sure to adjust your leader length and weight as the water level increases. Remember just because the fish stop breaking the surface does not mean they have stopped feeding. Hope to see you out there, and be sure to give us a call if we can be of service.
Rocky & Mick Lovett

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Hello my fellow fly fishers. As I said before I am starting to see lots of spiders, moths, and ants. The cicadas will be next but we have to hit that 100 degree mark in canyon first. As for the midges they are here and hatching in a BIG way. I had the pleasure of fishing with Tad McKnight on May 1st, it was nothing short of a great day, the fish were happy and on the feed, we landed so many fish that I am going to say its the best day of fishing I have had in ten years. We used the rig I call "the midging rig" its a variation of a dry dropper rig except I dont use a dry fly, I put a pich on indicator where the dry would be so that I can drop two midges below. The weather is perfect concidering its spring, after this last cold front we have had a week of warm weather and only the ocational afternoon wind, the midge hatches will continue and be on a large scale from here on out. Remember the warmer the weather, the better the catching. Hope to here from you soon. Rocky Lovett

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4/20/2010 fishing report

Hi all,The first thing that comes to mind is what great weather we have been having!. The fishing has been getting better by the day.I am starting to see the ants ,spiders,moths,lizards etc.active soon to follow hoppers and other terrestrials. Around the 100 degree mark the cicada.I cant wait. But until then we focus on the midge patterns. Just about all the fish we have been catching are coming on some form of midge pattern. The zebra midge is just as good as anything else but try everything one never knows you might find the next hot fly. My clients have caught a fair amount of fat 16 to 19 inch rainbow of late. I am still seeing some fish on redds spawning shallow and deep so keep an eye out for that. Same advice throw everything at them when you find them on redds not just egg patterns. Well I hope to hear from you soon remember this the hotter the temperature is the hotter the catching is . Rocky Lovett

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4/9/2010 fishing report

Hey my friends, My interpretation of this pectrogliph which can be found on the river at mile nine is bighorn sheep make the would go around. Hows that for all of you sheep hunters? Now about the fishing. Do to cold nights and weird weather patterns we have had very little bugs as in fish food which has made for tough catching. I say catching because the fishing is great. The day temps have been warming up near 70 degrees. To adapt we have been swinging and then stripping streamers woolly buggers to be exact,olive with cristeal flash or flashabou. I expect as soon as the night temps start to stay above 45 or 50 degrees the midge hatches will start to be more prolific and the trout will move to the shallows and resume more vigorous feeding habits. Last night was a bit warmer. Don't get me wrong we are still catching a fair number of fish. But be prepared to use all of the tactics in your arsenal. One might start with a dry dropper in the morning then a nymphing rig in the mid day and finish with a streamer and heavy sink tip. The tip for the week is cover lots of water and fish deep.I would like to give a special thanks and appreciation to Sir John Matox, Mr. John Breznak and Dave Cohon for their friendship, faith and encouragement. THANKS GUYS Rocky Lovett

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3/29/2010 fishing report

Hello everyone, When the weather is good and the river level is down for the afternoon the fishing is good. As you can see one of my longtime clients Tim Flanagan caught a beautiful,big brown trout, but he wasn't the only one. Daniel Huthsinger caught a 17 inch German brown seven days later. He was caught off of a spawning bed,so lets hope it is a trend. I have heard of three other browns netted by other guides. Now about the catching of the rainbows. The key word is midges. They are taking midges over anything else try to use all different patterns that the fish may not see very much. I have been experimenting with several different colors of bead head midges. I found so far purple has been working very well. A dry dropper rig or a midging rig has been working the best lately,remember alot of the fish will be suspended while feeding on midge emergers. The places to look for are seems and slow moving water. You may or may not see trout working the surface, but they are there. When all else fails break out the sink tip and swing,then stripe a olive woolly bugger. The spawn is winding down ,but you may still see a few trout on redds. If you do chocolate worms have been the Best for me, but try every thing you never know what they will take. I will see you out there ,until then good fishing. Rocky Lovett

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3/8/2010 Fishing Report

Hello My Fellow Fly Fishers,
To start with the weather is great, today its around 60 degrees and the lows are staying above 40 degrees. 45-50 degree lows are the magic number, when this happens the midge and black fly hatches will be more prolific, in short "lots of them". As always in the spring these short weather fronts, put a damper on the catching, but luckily only during the front. When the sun sun breaks out the fishing returns to normal.
Right now the catching in my opinion is a 5 or 6, depending on where your at on the river, and of course the weather.
Right now the fish are making more and more "redds" throughout the river, mostly in deep unwadable water. So to fish them you have to strategically anchor yourself, to make deep nymphing possible, or you can drift over them. All colors of eggs (in sizes #10 to #14), and a chocolate chenille worm, have been producing the best. A caution in anchoring is to not place your anchor where it can be drug through the "redds". For those of you who don't know the term "redd", it means the spawning bed of the rainbows.
Another thing I want to talk to you about this week is the surface action going on near the shores. Keep your eye out for fish breaking the surface, they are taking some adult midges, but most are right below catching emergers. A lot of the time they catch them right before they make it to the surface, and in returning downward cause the surface disturbance, I call "poping". The way to target these fish is the dry, dropper rig. Use any medium size dry, and drop a zebra midge 20-30" below, on 6x tippet. You can drift by them using your oars, or anchor where possible.
And of course nymphing the riffles is producing a few fish (spotty). Looking forward to seeing you or hearing from you soon.
Rocky Lovett
M.C.O.

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