Seek Shelter Now!
I’ve been in Arizona the last two days fishing with Steve on a unique spring creek. This was the only week that was open for both of us, so we booked the trip, despite weather warnings. We had a good time trekking up and down the stream-side trails while site fishing for huge Rainbow and Apache trout. Turned out, the only fly the trout were interested in were streamers. Too bad I’m a dry-fly-only fisher. It happens on occasion. There were only a few catches we observed during the two days we were on the stream. Both days had strong winds that surely affected the fishing, especially for the dry fly guys. We saw a few guys shaking their heads in disbelief as they couldn’t get any rises with these trout. That’s fishing. Or, maybe it was the barometric pressure? We only met one guy who had a good day of fishing, a local fisher who knows the stream and its idiosyncrasies. He shared that he finds small streamers are all that works this time of year. And, more specifically, white streamers se...
