This season, I must be one of a few "real" anglers who observed and fished for Spring Baetis (blue-wing-olive) at Livingston's spring creeks. My past notes tell me that usually hatches of midges and baetis and accompanied trout rises occur in late March (though people who don't really fish creeks would speculate much earlier!). This is indeed very early, which I don't mind! Furthermore, this is not a temporal-&-varying-day-by-day thing. I can set the clock and expect already! Amazing!
Let's look back the first week of March! Stage is, as always, at DePuy's Spring Creek!
I observed a subsurface rise. I calculated the distance and the sinking rate of my subsurface fly = Master Angler PT. BINGO!!
When I visited Hopper Juan during Fly Fishing Show in Denver, he offered me a couple of his own baetis patterns. They all look great and I was obliged to test. The first pattern I tied on brought me the first Yellowstone Cutthroat for the year!
Here are several effective patterns.
My own Pheasant Tail Mayfly Cripple might be a "classic", considering the numbers of original patterns I invented after this one........ Still one of my best and most reliable mayfly patterns!!
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Of course, nymphing is very productive before and after the hatch. I don't go through individual fly patterns but I mention food sources that need considered: egg, scud, sowbug, midge larva, & baetis nymph are very abundant and effective, followed by stonefly nymph, cranefly larva, snails, etc.
Hope to keep updating a good report!
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