Key to fishing alone;
Fish the popular areas of a stream on weekdays.
Fish the head waters areas or streams on the weekend.

Watch for:
Mayflies
Baetis hatches April, May and Sept.
Sulfurs in late may and June (size 14)
Hexagenia in early summer in silty streams ( dusk)
Tricos in August, morning hatch evening spinners
Fish can be selective - carry an assortment of duns, emergers and spinners

Caddis
Late spring black and dark gray size 16
During hatch use an emerger with stubby wings and trailing shuck
When no hatch search with size 16 EHC

Midge
Can happen any time through year
Griffith's gnat and cream adult midge size 24

Terrestrials
Early August thorough Sept Hoppers Size 10
July on beetles size 14 black foam

Scuds and Sow bugs
In most SW streams size 12 to 18 in olive and gray

Prospecting
With nymphs:
Scuds, Chocolate Hare's Ear, Soft-Hackled Woolly Worm (black and grizzly 12 & 16)

Read "Nymphing at a Distance" March/April 1997 American Angler & "Micro-Nymphing for Stubborn Trout" July/August 1995 American Angler

Meat fly
To represent crayfish and sculpin use a Bi-bugger size 8 & 12 cast straight upstream and dead drift or swing in larger pools etc. In dirty water use a black SHWB.

Rich Osthoff is a well known write, fisher, and tyer. He does programs for shows and tying demonstrations. he also does commercial tying of his flies. To contact him for a catalog write: