Wet, blowing and bone chilling weather on the Mckenzie today. We toughed it out much of the day, and caught fish on swung wet flies and nymphs. Overall fishing was a bit tough. The past few days the March Browns have been hatching consistently around 1:30pm. Today there were none to be found in the stretch between Hendricks and Hayden. The air temp was 40, add the wind chill in, and it was bitter. Both water and air temps were the lowest in several days. Best flies were Royal Coachman Wet, March Brown nymphs, and Possie Buggers nymph fished and swung. You know it’s cold when the “golden wigglers” are on the grab.
We did manage a few nice rainbows, they were on the swung wet. Look for things to break loose when the current weather front moves through and we get air temps into the high 50s.
