It’s getting to the point where you’d better either be really well dressed for the weather or pick your days very wisely if you’re going to fish. It’s not been really “casual” fishing weather lately. It is, after all, almost November. Daytime air temperatures haven’t been extreme yet but it’s been into the low 20s at night which makes early arrivals to the river kind of pointless. You’ll want layers too…probably lots of them. It’ll be cold out there even if you get here at 10. Once you get acclimated you’ll be fine….maybe after and hour or two depending on the wind. Based on the current forecast it looks like the next several days may be about as pleasant as we’ll see for the next few months; they’re calling for highs in the mid 40s to low 50s with fairly light wind. Don’t let that fool you though…even with a 5 mph breeze it can feel 10 degrees cooler. Not much in the way of precipitation called for at the moment. It’s looking like it’ll be bright and cold…not particularly conducive to really good fall fishing. We much prefer at least some cloud cover. Deep nymphing will likely be your best bet here until we get some weather back in. I’d probably throw a small Girdle Bug with a pheasant Tail or other mayflyish type bead head as a dropper. Of course there’s always the egg option. They’ve been eating those pretty well here for the past week or two. Some guys trail them behind Zonkers, others fish ‘em with another small nymph and still others run ‘em, two at a time. No matter how you do it make sure they’re bouncing on the bottom, preferably slowly. This pretty much goes for anything you’re throwing right now in the bright sun. Once we get some clouds here again, we should be right in the thick of things streamer-wise. The browns are definitely fired up and looking for a fight. For whatever reason they much prefer to duke it out under cover of gray. I’m guessing we’ll see some of that before to long.

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