Silver Creek Brown Drakes
We are now less than ten days away from opening day and we thought yesterday would be a perfect time to look for Brown Drake nymphs behind Picabo Angler on Silver Creek. While wading Silver Creek and seining for Brown Drake nymphs there were a bunch of Baetis on the water and a few callibaetis as well. And..., yes, fish were up feeding on the surface.
The water flow on Silver Creek at the time of writing this is 115 cfs. The mean for today is 121 cfs.
Our Brown Drake patterns--along with many others--just arrived and we are fully stocked. It's our guess at Picabo Angler that the Brown Drakes will get started, much like last year, somewhere near the end of May.
Brown Drake (Ephemera Simulans) Nymphs. Silver Creek. Photo: Nick Price