The Fall River is a special place this time of year, with a good afternoon hatch of mayflies, usually some midges in the morning and evening and caddis mixed in depending on the weather of the day.
These fish love a good crippled mayfly on a 6.5x or 7x tippet and it is such a fun thing to match the hatch right here and get that confident take of a fish that thinks it is just feeding on yet another helpless, bedraggled emerging dun! As I write this my mind wanders to the visual of that, and I can’t wait to get out there soon. Sean, are you ready?
The Caddis are best matched with an Edible Emerger #16 Tan, Orange or Yellow Missing Link Caddis #16, Tan X Caddis #14-16 and a Henryville #16.
Midges are abundant and require 7x tippet, patience and a good selection of emergers and adults in Black or Grey #22-24. A Red or Black Zebra Midge is a very good fly.
Perdigons, Eggs, Micro Jig Streamers. 2 Bit Hookers, Squirrel Streamers, Balanced and Jig Leeches, Jig Minnows and Olive Mini Gulps are a bunch of stapes for us.