With the return of seasonable temperatures, a little rain, and some nice cloud cover, the game will change a bit on the Gardner. 

The team at Blue Ribbon Flies are reporting they seen and brought to hand some runners in the mouth of the Gardner already; seems a tad early by the recent warmer weather, but we believe their report of fooling ‘em with terrestrials last week.  The cooler weather and cloud cover the past few days should have pushed a few more to move up. 

There are still some brookies below Sheepeater; the residents above have widely dispersed for the spawn already. 

As noted last week - the Gardner’s July floods are old news, but the impact on the river remains. We still agree with the guys at Park’s in Gardiner that you really should leave the middle section of the river alone until next year and give the survivors a chance to recover.

Flows were 144 cfs at 0545, with today’s average 133 cfs; flows spiked on the 20th but have been settling pretty rapidly.  There may be another spike today with rains that moved through last night. 

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Flies to have in the box

Dries:  Caddis – EHC, X Caddis, Electric Caddis, EC Caddis, Spent Caddis – tan and olive; baetis - BWO, Blue Dun, Olive Sparkle Dun, Comparadun, Fall baetis Sparkle Dun, Para-Adams; Attractors – your secret weapon, Royal Wulff, Coachman Trude;

Nymphs:  PT; BHPT; BH Hares Ear, Copper John, olive; BH Prince; Lightning bugs, gold, silver, green/olive;  SJW for stained water after the rains

Streamers / Other: Woolly buggers, brown, yellow, olive, black; Sparkle buggers, same colors; Girdle bug;

Terrestrials: Hoppers, beetles, ants, bees

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