Tuesday Fishing Missouri River Update 09.24.24

Facts today on the HH Blog…

BWO’s will not be here shortly. True BWO’s may not even come in October either. Sometimes November, now. Water temps need to be much cooler. We have not had true BWO hatches in the fall in some years. Sporadic hatches sometimes, in some regions, occasionally. What many anglers talk about, and some fishing reports report BWO’s coming soon. Psuedocloeon insects were once in the BWO/Baetis family. No longer. Psuedo’s are tiny BWO looking size 24 and smaller insects that do not find the fish eating them on the surface often. Try finding a Psuedo Pattern in your local fly shop. The spring BWO is much better in the let 15 years. We love the BWO, but do not believe they will be here shortly, or at all in numbers fish care about, or anglers for that matter.

Callibaetis around, but not in big numbers. Some on the upper river, have not seen any numbers on the lower. Parachute Adams or a Callibaetis Cripple. Blind fishing an Adams the past few days has not brought the fish to the fly.

October Caddis is another fly that many love, that does not make a big impression on our dry fly feeding fish. But, if you gotta fish a blind dry fly, this could be the one. If you can skitter, twitch, and/or dance the fly, you can have fun with this one. We have October Caddis Patterns in the shop for your fly flicking pleasure. We may see 10 adults in the air in a big year. Now is the time, historically, for the October Caddis. May find luck in the subsurface world of trout and insects. A popular swing pattern. An orange Bomber for the twitchers? A nymphal pattern can be the ticket if you like to sink your October Caddis patterns. May be the most successful October Caddis fly.

Hoppers and Ants still getting a bit of attention. A bit.

Nymphers love the fall period. Sows, small BWO and Pseudo nymphal patterns, newer Euro style nymphs as well, Zebra’s.

Weeds in the water column an issue til they are not. Learn the Mo River Weed Snap and you will prevail. Fished the canyon with dry flies this last week and felt is was fishable, and not too bad at all. A 3 on a scale of 1-10.

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