GUIDED TRIPS
Our resident guide Forrest Smith recently returned from guiding duties in Chile to fish the White during a brief layover before shipping west to guide in Montana. Here is Forrest's latest report... After several months guiding in Chile, I was eager to give my rowing arms a break from the torrential gradients of the rivers down south, and pitch something thats a little more sublte than a #6 Fat Albert or a half ounce wooly bugger. The White has been no less than very cooperative and receptive to my homecoming. May provided some great dry action with the tail end of the caddis hatch and the sulphurs. Look for sulphurs on into the first and second week of June. Fish have been very receptive to various suphur comparaduns and cripples. Pheasant tail soft hachles also work well for the emergers. If fish aren't looking up, a bead head pheasant tail will do the trick. Don't be afraid to throw some larger terrestrial patterns this early. I had four trips last week, and hopper fishing was great in the afternoons. Various other bugs are on the move, or will peak in the next few weeks. Sowbugs and various zebra midges have been working very well at the dam. Streamer action has also been great for those of you who don't want to stare at a strike indicator all day long. the emergent of crawdads on the first few warm days this month really got large browns looking for a bigger meal. various crawfish patterns worked well, but nothing beat the rootbeer colored bugger has worked well, and the tan variety will work well when they go into molt in the near future. Many of the browns have been moving on them in fast shallow water and the dirt banks. tightlines, Forrest Smith