Roaring River looks very good right now. River is running 53 CFS. This is fantastic. We really needed this kind of water. The dry fly fishing has become very good. With the hot dry weather we are now having, there is a bit of rain here and there, but that doesn't hurt anything. The beetle fishing and the ant fishing has been great. There are still plenty of elk hair caddis and blue wing olives hatching off every day. There is still a decent Trico hatch every morning that starts at about daylight and goes until about 9 o'clock. Cracklebacks are still working very well. The holographic green and grizzly has been working the best for me.

We are starting to see a few you hoppers on the water. If you prefer nymph fishing, put a pheasant tail or a copper John about 2 1/2 to 3 foot deep under an indicator and that will usually catch you several fish a day. As usual little zebra midges and small pheasant tails work all day long if you don't mind throwing eggs the very small size 18 and 20 eggs are working very well also

If you are fishing jigs, micro jigs are working very well right now the black and yellow the olive and the white are catching a lot of trout at the moment regular jigs. The same colors are working fine on the woolly bug jigs it's been mostly tan, black and yellow and olive.

If you're fishing plastics, orange, pink, white, and cheese yellow have all been good colors. The PowerBait grubs are still catching lots of trout. The yellow and brown were probably better this week than the pink, but they all seem to catch fish. First thing in the morning, a Rooster Tail-type spinner works very well for about 30 minutes maybe a little longer on a good day the best colors this week seem to be white pink the skunk and the glitter black little crank baits will also work well. Now that the water has came down and cleared up it seems to be very important to use 2- or 3-pound line. You can still catch fish with 4-pound, but you will not catch as many normally the 2-pound just seems to be less noticeable to them. Keep your drag set loose and 2-pound line works well.

Good luck on the river this week. Have fun.












Updated 06/29/25