Today's Read
Green River trout feed steadily in late April, but they are usually tuned to smaller food and cleaner drifts than visitors expect. Fish hold in weed lanes, bucket seams, and broad flats where scuds and sowbugs wash naturally. When BWOs come off, the better fish often rise in the gentler slick water, but subsurface presentations still account for most of the day's trout.
What Fish Are Doing
- Fish long drifts through weed lanes and the soft edges of deeper buckets with small flies and enough weight to stay in the lower half of the column.
- Target seam lines off grass beds, transition shelves, and quiet slicks below riffle tongues.
- When fish begin rising consistently, switch to a BWO or midge dry only after you have the right lane and angle. Green fish punish drag quickly.
Best Flies In The Current Report
- Pink or tan Scud, size 14-16, nymph
- Sowbug gray or cream, size 14-18, nymph
- Zebra Midge black, size 18-20, nymph
- RS2 olive, size 18-20, emerger
- CDC BWO, size 18-20, dry
