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Originally Posted by Speckle55
here is a tip try a bell weight and then two flys off your line at the creek mouths and fish abit down stream where they come in.it should bounce down the river with the flys being up above the weight .. its a type of drift fishing
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Thanks David. We were doing pretty much exactly as you suggested. While drifting, most of the time I was bottom bouncing a jig with a minnow or twister tail. For a while I tried a fly rig exactly as you described except used 3-way swivels instead of tying loops in the main line since the swivels seem to tangle less. For flies, I tried san juan worms, mickey fins, stonefly nymphs(the stonefly hatch was on bigtime), wooly buggers, and some others.
Most of the streams were completely dry but a few still had a trickle. The river itself dropped over a meter over the four days we were out. I'm thinking the fishing would be much better late August once the water clears up.