I’ve been lucky to get out on the Gunpowder a couple times this week. Yesterday was the first chance I’ve had to catch a spinner fall, and I am glad I stuck around for it.
Sulphurs continue to hatch on the Gunpowder. Morning fishing has been mostly about caddis for me, but after about 11:00 AM, you start to see sulphurs on the water. Funny thing about yesterday, although I saw a number of hatches throughout the day–including the most concentrated sulphur hatch I’ve seen this year–there were almost no rises. I caught fish during the hatches only when I switched to a wet fly (like a Little Marryat).
I had to wait until 8:25 (which, coincidentally was exactly sunset yesterday) to ‘see’ the spinner fall. I say ‘see’, because I actually saw almost no bugs despite looking up, down, at the water, and at every background available. I saw a couple lime sallies, and that was about it. Still, the trout were going crazy.
I targeted two individual fish, cast about six times total, and caught both of them on the size 18 sulphur comparadun above. I couldn’t really see at that point, so I ended it on a high note.
I don’t expect last night’s rain put the hatch or the fish off too much, but you never know. Good luck.
James Kibler 