The Lewis River is still slowly making the transition to fall, and from the sounds of things the browns have not yet moved into the river in numbers. 

The report is basically the same as last week in terms of the best approach at this point. 

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. 

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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, Zebra Midge, Suspender Midge, Disco Midge; your attractor package

Nymphs:  BHFBPT; SF PT; Copper John;  Caddis - 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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