STREAM REPORTS......................

July 3, 2009



Orvis Streamside and

THE ORVIS MICHIGAN FLY FISHING SCHOOL
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HEX!!! HEX!!! HEX!!! HEX!!!

UPPER MANISTEE, BOARDMAN, AND OTHER LOCAL RIVERS ALL REPORTING HEX OVER THE LAST TWO NIGHTS. ALREADY SPINNER FALLS ON SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE UPPER MANISTEE.!!!

GUIDES ARE AVAILABLE FOR FULL AND HALF DAY TROUT TRIPS — GOOD HATCHES OF SULFURS, CADDIS AND MAHOGONIES DAILY ON MOST LOCAL RIVERS.

CARP ARE STILL IN BOTH BAYS NEAR FINAL SPAWN. SMALLMOUTH IN SHALLOW FEEDING AROUND ROCKS. BASS WILL GO TO BEDS NOW. WATER TEMPS RISING DAILY.

TIME TO PICK A SPOT, SET UP, HAVE A GIN AND TONIC, AND WAIT FOR THE BIG FLIES TO COME DOWN.

ALL RIVERS ARE OPEN FOR GENERAL TROUT SEASON, RUNNING AT NORMAL LEVELS.



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Manistee, Betsie and Boardman Rivers Stream Report
FINALLY SOME WARM TEMPS AND THE RAIN IS GONE! WARMER WATER IS GETTING INSECT HATCHES GOING AND FISH FEEDING. GOOD FISHING AND HATCHES WITH SEVERAL SPECIE OF SPINNERFALLS MOST AREAS. SHOULD SEE THE RETURN OF THE HEX TONIGHT!


"FLIES-ONLY" WATER ON THE MANISTEE HAS FAIR STREAMER FISHING AND DAILY SULFURS (E. DOROTHEAS), DOROTHEA SPINNERS, ISONYCHIA, ISO SPINNERFALLS, SOME LIGHT CAHILLS, AND NOW HEX (HEXAGENIA LIMBATA), OLIVE CADDIS HATCHES WITH EGG LAYERS AT DUSK. GRAY DRAKES ALSO MIXED IN DEPENDING ON SPECIFIC AREA. GOOD NUMBERS OF GOLDEN STONEFLIES. ISONYCHIA EMERGERS ARE STARTING AT 9:30PM AS WELL. LOOK FOR EMERGENCES FROM 8-10P AND SPINNERFALLS 10P TO DARK. WARM, DRY WEATHER WILL FINALLY BRING THE BUGS AND FEEDER BACK.

BOTH BAYS ARE STILL SEEING CARP CRUISING/FEEDING/SPAWNING DAILY IN THE SHALLOWS AND ROCKS. HEAT IS DRIVING CARP DEEPER NOW. SMALLMOUTH ARE SPAWNING NOW AND HEAT WILL PUSH THIS ALONG QUICKLY. START FIRST ON THE LEE SIDES OF THE PENINSULA AND MAINLAND.



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ORVIS MICHIGAN FLY FISHING SCHOOL
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RESERVE YOUR GUIDE DATES NOW —
LOTS OF GOOD SULFUR, DRAKE AND HEX FISHING THIS WEEK. LOOK FOR GRAY DRAKES, BAETISCUS AND BROWN DRAKES. HEX ARE NOW EMERGING ON ALL AREA RIVERS AND LAKES. GRAB YOUR CALENDER AND CALL TO SIGN UP A DATE FOR THE BIG BUGS IN LATE JUNE AND EARLY JULY!
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Upper Manistee - Flies Only
Water levels are up a little but only stained. Good hatches of e. dorotheas (little sulfurs), great dorothea spinnerfalls at dusk, isonychia spinners early evening, and hex now daily with olive caddis #14 all day. Sporadic isonychia bicolor duns and spinners at dusk too. The rains have brought earlier than normal (7-8p) spinnerfalls of iso's. Dorothea spinners and emergers are still moving small fish from 7-9p. Look for iso's at dark. After dark, hex are now coming off and spinners coming around 11pm. Egg-laying caddis coming around 8pm too. Hex are starting in all the usual places and the warmer now that the rain has passed will continue to push the hex along quickly this week.

Below Sharon huge spinnerfalls of isonychia bicolor have been coming down from 6-7:30 an moving some large fish in the early evening.

Boardman River:
The fishing upstream in the trout water is good. Warmer water has fish finally feeding. We've had good hatches of sulfurs, cahills, olive caddis and hex. Today's temps (70's) are greatly improving fishing. Spinnerfalls are good and around 9:30-10:30pm. Hex in the silt bed areas from Forks to Sabin. Olive caddis #14 plentiful with egg-layers coming daily 6pm. Watch for gray drake activity below Garfield.

Hatches: Boardman and Upper Manistee Rivers
Hex (hexagenia limbata after dark) now! Little sulfur #18 (e. dorothea), golden stoneflies #8, olive caddis #14, all over the river. Dorothea spinners tan #18. Gray drakes #12. Isonychia bicolor #12. Hex #4-6.Spinner falls are coming around 10-11pm and olive caddis egg-layers 8-9pm also moving a few fish. Emergences of hex may be delayed into the early morning hours with very high temps.

Trout Patterns:
Robert's Hex, Ray's Hex, Ralph Hanna hex patterns, Dave's Oh-so-Iso #12 best all week with isonychia. #12. Robert's Yellow Drakes #18, Angel hair or Evert's spinner #18 are perfect for the sulfur spinner fall. Nealy's Hex for the hex emergers. Some baetis#16-20 coming when the rain comes. CDC and calf post parachute olives #16-18 are working on bank-feeders if we ever see any clouds again. Streamers fishing is still good mornings and cloudy days. White has been best!... but change colors until fish start to move on your fly. there are baetiscus (#14... all thorax) on the upper Manistee as well.

AFTER THE HEX, DRAG YOUR MOUSE PATTERNS!

Dredging the deep holes with a Zug Bug #14, or isonychia nymph or as a dropper has been good for guides. Ron's Yellow Skunk fooled a nice 18 incher yesterday too. Pheasant tails in #16 are also a good choice as well. Caddis pupa #16. Yellow soft-hackles #14 and in hare’s ear. March browns for the s. vicarium or an Ausable Wulff in #12 is OK. Dave's Oh-So Iso alias Borcher's parachute in #16 is perfect for the paraleptophlebia (little mahagony) Successful streamers include buggers, Russ Madden's Circus Peanuts, in black, white and olive. Hard to beat a Zuggler in white, olive and black. On the other side of the spectrum, small buggers #8 and light spruce #6 are fooling fish.

Carp Patterns:
Best carp patterns include Whitlock's Near Nuff Crayfish in gray, brown, orange. Brown BH wooly buggers #10 are great! Hex nymph patterns of all sorts. Smallies will eat the same patterns.

Forecast:
Highs in the mid to upper 70's. Temps to stay warm all week! Hex weather! Warm overnights will help spinnerfalls. Check in to find our current conditions. Then,... get out and hit the water. Check the weather box in the upper left hand corner of our web pages (www.streamsideorvis.com) to get the exact local weather, or call directly (231) 933-9300.