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.

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

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Water is still in great shape, it is clearing very fast, the dry fly fishing has been very good again.
It has been so warm for so long it seems the insects aren't sure of the time of the season, we
are seeing a bunch of ants and beetles, and even seeing some small hoppers already, it is is like June
in April.

Water is still very clear and running at a normal flow at the moment, we did get a 1 1/2" of rain

Sunday afternoon, but all it did was muddy the water for a few hrs and make the fishing fantastic for a few hrs, the beetle fishing after the rain was great, cracklebacks and ants did well for me also, I caught a few just before the storm on brassies, and 1 on a Crackleback, it was going to be good but the rain and the lightning made me sit in the car for 30 minutes or so, and the storm passed and it was really good after that, a #10 beetle did best for me, I fished an hour after the rain and caught 9 decent rainbows.

We have been having some really good dry fly fishing the past few months, Blue Wing Olives, Adams, elk hair caddis, Griffiths gnats and lt cahills (evening) have all been catching a lot of trout, the trico hatch in the morning is still pretty good, it only lasts an hour or so, but if you can get into them a #24 or #26 will work well for you.

I'm still using 7X on dries and 6X on nymphs, 5X on streamers.

Copper johns, pheasant tails, zebra midges, burlaps, sow bugs, San Juan worms, glo-balls, chamois worms and small thread jigs have all been catching trout.

Black, olive, and brown woolybuggers are always a good choice for catching trout, we will use them in sizes from 8's to 16's
For the non fly fisherman, spinners and jigs are always good choices sight fishing with a jig when the water is this clear, black spinners have been working very well.

Plastic worms in white, cheese, orange, and orange/white have all been good
plastic eggs in hatch brown, white, flo. yellow and orange have all been good
Micro jigs in olive, white, black/yellow and tan have all been good.
Small crankbaits are still very effective, and F5 Rapala is a good choice or a
small rebel crawfish is always good.

Small spoons in gold are good in the riffles and the deeper holes.

If you are fishing in zone 3 then corn, Power Bait paste or live minnows will catch you some nice fish, and if you are fly fishing in zone 3, then I do best with bigger buggers, brown, black, and olive and I do ok on San Juans and glo balls from time to time, good luck on the river this week.






Updated 05/07/12

Guide Phil Glaze

Tim caught this 20" McCloud River rainbow out of Crane Creek. 

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

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

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