The Lewis River is slowly making the transition to fall, and we got a report yesterday that the browns are beginning to pod up but haven’t moved into the river yet in significant numbers…

Your approach now will be as much dependent on the weather as anything else.  On the warmer and sunnier days, terrestrial dropper combos will be useful during the day when there aren’t obvious hatches working, though a bugger with a small bead head nymph behind would also be a very useful rig to prospect with, and probably the way we would attack it ourselves, particularly if we were on the water early.
 
In terms of the fall hatches, on the cooler days BWO/baetis will be increasingly prominent; midges (18-22) and caddis in the evenings will be on tap through September.

We’re still waiting like you are for the fall brown trout run out of the lakes - there are some very large fish (8-10 lbs) above the falls during the run every year.  We’re going to be in the area the end of the week and will dig up what we can.

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Flies to Have in the Box:

Dries:  baetis - BWO, Blue Dun, Olive Sparkle Dun, Para-adams; Caddis - EHC, tan, X Caddis, Electric Caddis; PMX- various; Midges - your favorites, Suspender Midge, Disco Midge; your attractor package

Nymphs:  BHFBPT; SF PT; Copper John;  Caddis - Mangy, Pulsating’Electric, Super Pupas; Prince / MegaPrince / BH Prince; Lightning bugs, gold, silver;

Terrestials: Hoppers - Grand, Whit, Dave’s, Carnage, Kicking, Hoppinator; Beetles- Fire, Foam, HiVis, Sam’s;  Ants - Chernobyl, ParaAnt, black and cinnamon, CDC Flying ant, black, brown, cinnamon; Epoxy, same colors

Streamers / Other:  Woolly Bugger, brown, black, olive, yellow; Sparkle Buggers, same colors; Girdle Bug; Rubberlegs, orange/brown, olive, black, brown

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