Fishing on area waters remains very good. Cooler nighttime temperatures will put fish on the move and have them feeding in earnest in preparation for fall spawning and the harsher conditions of winter. Now is the time to hunt trophy trout \u2014 big browns on Silver Creek, 20-inch cutthroat on the Upper Big Lost River, and the robust rainbows on the Big Wood River are all prime targets.
\nOn Silver Creek, late morning activity will center on small Baetis (BWOs). Have long, light leaders and a variety of emergers, duns, and spinners on hand. The Callibaetis will start to wane with the cooler weather, but we\u2019ll see the Mahogany Dun and October Caddis in stronger numbers as the month progresses. Both of these bugs prefer the cooler weather of fall and appear during the most pleasant part of the day \u2014 late morning to mid-afternoon. Hoppers, beetles, and ants will still produce on the Creek; don\u2019t put these bugs away until we get a couple of good, hard freezes.
\nThe Big Wood during autumn sees one of our favorite hatches \u2014 the Western Red Quill (Hecuba). Large Parachute Adams, Parachute Hare\u2019s Ears, H&L Variants, Ausable Wulffs, and Purple Hazes (all in size 10\u201312) will fool plenty of fish once this bug appears. Your favorite green drake and brown drake patterns will work as well.
\nThe upper Big Lost River system is a great option right now. No need to get there early; hit the river at mid-afternoon and fish your favorite hopper and Western Red Quill patterns. For the Lower Lost, keep an eye out for Baetis and Tricos. The nymphing will be very good on this water throughout the fall as flows drop.
\nThe Salmon River continues to fish well for both floating and wading anglers. Again, the way to go is with hopper\/droppers, small attractor dries, and streamers.
\nRemember that now is when streamers really shine. The Coffey\u2019s Sparkle Minnow is a great all-around streamer for our waters.<\/p>\n
Happy fishing everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fishing on area waters remains very good. Cooler nighttime temperatures will put fish on the move and have them feeding in earnest in preparation for fall spawning and the harsher conditions of winter. Now is the time to hunt trophy trout \u2014 big browns on Silver Creek, 20-inch cutthroat on the Upper Big Lost River, […]<\/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":[77,38,56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fishing","8":"category-sponsored","9":"category-wildlife-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22784","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=22784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22785,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22784\/revisions\/22785"}],"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=22784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}