Roaring River is finally getting back to where we can fish dry flies and nymphs better now. Water flow is now 144 CFS and it is dropping slowly by next Thursday or Friday. It should be down to about 100 and the fishing should get much better than for fly fishing. The people throwing power bait are doing very well right now the yellow and pink 1 inch power bait grubs have been catching a lot of fish, orange worms, pink worms and cheese yellow worms have been extremely good this week if you like fishing the eggs, white, orange, pink, and flour yellow have been pretty good.

Water is still kind of dingy so you can still get away with 4 pound line, in a week or two it will probably be to your advantage to go to 2 pound line. The water will clear pretty quickly when it gets down below 100 CFS.

There were several decent reports of fish being caught on dry flies this weekend, Beetles, elk hair, caddis, and blue wing olives, were catching a few, nymphs are still working well, peasant tails, hares ears, sow bugs, burlaps, copper johns, zebra midges, have all been working well.

If you're fishing a spinning rod 1/16 and 1/32 ounce Maribou jigs, have been working very well black/yellow, olive, brown, white, & brown caught a lot of trout this weekend.

Spinners worked very well for the first 30 minutes or so every day skunk, black, yellow, and frog green rooster tails worked very well, spoons are still working pretty good. The water is falling, but they are still good in the morning and when fishing some of the deeper holes.

Good luck on the river this week




Updated 06/01/25