Yampa Report 7/6/06
The Yampa River through Steamboat is fishing extre,mely well. PMD’s and yellow sally’s can be expected in the morning and red quill’s are producing rising fish in the evenings. The fish are keyed in on the rusty spinner spent wing…look for slow, calm takes in the slower water in order to spot the fish. Some of the eats are very subtle and a keen eye is required to site fish.
If dry dropper is your style you are in luck. The large terrestrials are starting to show and #6 peacock PMX’s with a bubble back caddis emerger, soft hackle PT, barr’s PMD emerger 3 feet below will get the job done. Also, the Green Drake hatch has started to appear in town as well as west of town. The hatch is thickest to the west but can be expected to move up river to the east. The drake nymphs are active on the bottom, use large Prince Nymphs, Green drake Nymphs, or larger olive PT’s to cover the spectrum.
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