If it ever stops raining maybe we can fish without fearing for our lives because of the lighting or the fast rising waters. This week it looks as if we can get a chance to fish one of the best time in the entire year the first two or three weeks of the Trico hatch and spinner fall, I focus on spinners and very seldom even fish a dun but before the fish get spooky after getting pounded by guys who can't cast a shit or don't know how to get a good drift make the fish ultra picky- go now. As on the Missouri River make sure your first cast is the best one, across and slightly downstream is the best presentation. I use #24 or a #26 (if the fish are picky) poly wing black or dark olive spinner with the barbs pinched down. After a good hour of spinner time, it will be about the time the #16 tan caddis start to make their appearance, do not over look these, at this time of year the trout feed on them very well, if your on Penns in the morning look for spent caddis in the slicks or back eddies then as the morning fades look for the adults to emerge just fluttering over the waters surface, trout love them.
If I'm fishing Spring or Bald Eagle and it gets to be noon, I have lunch then look for a shady section to fish a #12 black foam beetle or it it's Penns a #16 Black ant or a nice fat hopper pattern! Nice easy slow fishing and your home early- just do it. I was surprised as to how good Penns is holding up and how it did not get blown out at Coburn and below Weikert, not like Spring and Bald Eagle and not to mention Big Fishing Creek they all are suffering from excessive water but hey normally we don't have any this time of year!
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