Tim's Roaring River Fishing Report

Tim Homesley has been fishing Roaring River State Park for over 30 years, and has fished an average of 300 days per year for the last 23 years.

In addition to his own outstanding experience on the local streams and lakes, Tim also has access to the experience of the three guides he runs out of his shop.

You can always get the up-to-the-minute fishing information you need by stopping by Tim's Fly Shop!

Guide Phil Glaze, now working through Tim's Fly Shop

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The water at Roaring River is up a bit and has some color to it right now, the snow melting
and the rains we got just before the snow has caused the river to be a bit cloudy, on a sunny day
with Polaroid glasses you can still see 5 or 6 feet into the water. We have been having some great
dry fly days, caddis, baetis flies, Adams, Griffith's Gnats and cracklebacks have all been effective
the past few weeks.
If you want to nymph fish, then the pheasant tail, copper john, zebra midge, San Juan worm, glo-ball
chamois worms, scuds, sowbugs and gold ribbed hares ears, all caught good amounts of trout this weekend.
Woolybuggers, muddler minnows, bunny bugs and other hairy streamers are doing well fished deep in the pools.
Been some good fish caught on soft hackles, orange/partridge, and green/partridge have done best for me this season.
I'm getting away with 5X tippet on buggers and big streamers, 6X on nymphs, and still using 7X on dries and very small nymphs.
Still recommending 9' leaders and a # 4 or a # 6 shot placed about 6" above your nymphs, and if you use an indicator, set it at about 30" to start and adjust as needed, good luck on the river this week, and remember next weekend is it until the park reopens March 1st 2010
Tight lines, fish all you can.
 

- Updated 2/01/10

Guide Phil Glaze

Tim caught this 20" McCloud River rainbow out of Crane Creek a few weeks ago - the biggest one he's caught there in a while. 

Here's a beautiful 15-lb, 31 1/2" Char that Tim Homesley caught on a trip to Alaska a couple of weeks ago.

For the latest water conditions from the USGS, log on to http://waterdata.usgs.gov:80/nwis/uv?07050152 .

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