{"id":22412,"date":"2025-05-28T00:55:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T06:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=22412"},"modified":"2025-05-26T14:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T20:03:06","slug":"fishing-report-210","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/fishing-report-210\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The General Season Opener was Saturday, May 24<sup>th<\/sup>, and Silver Creek reopened in its entirety. The current conditions on the Creek are excellent and the river once again presents us with gorgeous views, rising trout, and our favorite mayflies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">If you plan to fish the first few weeks of the season on Silver Creek, the mainstay hatches will be PMDs and BWOs. We have been consistently seeing PMDs on the portion of Silver Creek that has remained open to fishing. These bugs are beefy (size 14 \u2013 16) and you will need both emerger and dun imitations. A large beetle pattern (black Mini-Chubby Chernobyl, Jake\u2019s Gulp Beetle, Crowe Beetle, or black Fat Albert) can save the day on an early season Silver Creek outing, particularly if there\u2019s a bit of wind. Small ants are always in play on the Creek, and it would not be a bad idea to carry a few Callibaetis and Damsels on your Silver Creek outings. Small leech patterns, the Picabo Angler Custom Sparkle Minnow, or Mouse patterns can produce some truly large fish during the early season. Don\u2019t put away your streamer rods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Brown Drakes are probably at least a week (or more) away. With that said, no one ever truly knows when this hatch will appear, and history says have some of these patterns in your fly box from the moment the clock strikes 12:00 AM on Opening Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There should be plenty of anglers on the Creek during June. Let\u2019s be sure we celebrate the season together and treat one another like we want to be treated on the river.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Freestone rivers such as the Big Wood and Upper Big Lost River system will be high and turbid for several weeks, although adventuring anglers can find some fishable water. Snowpack in the Big Wood drainage hovers around 120%, so expect more high and turbid water into June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Lower Big Lost River is flowing at almost 400%, so access is difficult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Magic, Mackay, and Little Wood reservoirs continue to fish well. Black leeches are the ticket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We are looking forward to seeing everyone in the shop and on the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Happy fishing everyone!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Season Opener was Saturday, May 24th, and Silver Creek reopened in its entirety. The current conditions on the Creek are excellent and the river once again presents us with gorgeous views, rising trout, and our favorite mayflies. If you plan to fish the first few weeks of the season on Silver Creek, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,38,39,56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fishing","8":"category-sponsored","9":"category-sport","10":"category-wildlife-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22413,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22412\/revisions\/22413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}