Fishing Report 3-28-2009

-After a night of rain Friday night/early Saturday morning I met Jack and Brett at the Mountain Log Lookout Cabin, we talked a little about what the water may do. Everything was great so we decided to put the drift boat in. This was NOT a beautiful Spring day, temps started out in the mid 40's and dropped out quickly...add a cold rain and some pretty strong winds to that it you could say it was fairly brutal.

-Floated from ROLF to Blair. The morning started off nicely, catching fish and having hook-ups consistantly. About mid-day we noticed that the water was coming up nicely (not too fast but coming up) and then it got a little dirty and the fishing slowed WAY down. At one point I thought that it really looked and seemed like the water was going down but that didn't last long until it started coming up again slowly. It turns out I was actually right and looking at the graphs that is exactly what the water did. It was a lot like the tailwaters only not so dramatic.

-As the water changed so did our style of fishing. I had one guy fishing a NASTY nymph rig with a huge stone and a San Juan Worm and the other guy with a double streamer rig. The double streamer rig (that was being drifted at the time) got a huge take and the fish literally ran 30' in about 4 seconds, one of the most stout runs I have ever seen. Got the fish to the net and it was a super nice 20+" rainbow.

Had a great time with a couple of fellow Mountain Bikers! :-)

Brian Wise

Head Guide

River of Life Farm

Fishing Report 3-13, 14, & 15, 2009

I don't want to sound like a broken record but floated from ROLF to Blair all 3 days (3 different groups of people) and all saw very good fishing including a couple of guys that had never fly fished.
Hands down the Psycho Prince is tearing them up this Spring and the regular Rubber Leg Stonefly with the Psycho Prince dropped off of it has been the ticket most days. But the suprise for all 3 of these days was a GREAT dry fly bite in the afternoon. BWO's and Caddis were coming off but it was the BWO that they were rising for, and rising often....and vicously! :) Best dry fly of the 3 days was a #14 Parachute Adams.

Did I mention we had a little fun?

Brian Wise

Head Guide

River of Life Farm

Fishing Report March 6 & 7, 2009

I had the opportunity to take Keith, Nick, and Jimmy from Chicago on the North Fork for a couple of days. Water levels had been really good and the weather was more than cooperative.


We put the boat in at ROLF and decided to float to Blair on the first day. I could write a riffle-by-riffle report but it would be easier to say that every stop and drifting in the boat between those stops produced fish. Fishing was great. Didn't catch anything big but the numbers were through the roof!

A Psycho Prince being the number one fly for the day.

After having such a good time the day before we decided to take the same float and target some bigger fish. Although we didn't catch anything huge we did end up with a couple of 16" rainbows and a fat brown for the day. The fly of the day was a toss-up between the Psycho Prince and a Rubber-Legs.




Had a great time.....and fishing was fantastic!




Brian Wise
Head Guide
River of Life Farm