We are winding down on the Green Drake hatch on the Metolius River, but it is not over! You absolutely will be seeing Drakes this weekend and early in the week. I know Phil was down yesterday and got 4 on drakes to the net, and missed others. While we may only get another 5 to 7 days of Green Drakes this week, take solace in the fact that the September Drakes are just 2 months away and I believe that is often the better of the 2 Drake hatches on the Metolius. Maybe just from the standpoint it seems to be more reliable and consistent. 
This week nymphs, emergers, duns, cripples and spinners all should be in your box. 
PMD mayflies are the star of the show throughout the river, and Blue Wing Olives make an appearance, but that can be all over the without rhyme or reason from one day to the next. Here’s the deal, carry BWO’s, especially cripples and emergers and look for them most often in the evening in the summer. But on a rainy cool weekend like this it could be they are important to the fish, and you mid afternoon. Don’t overlook them. I remember last season being so sure the fish were rising to PMD’s, and I changed flies several times to yet another version of a PMD, getting nothing. Then a customer walked by on his way to leave and we made some small talk about how it was downriver and he said he caught a couple on BWO’s but had to leave because he was late for dinner. That was all the hint I needed, I tied on a BWO film critic and immediately caught a good fish. As you approach the river and your fly selection with mayflies this week you’ll want drakes #8-10, PMD #16 and BWO #20-22 and don’t forget to add Rusty Spinners for evening in #16’s. 
Caddis hatches have been ok, our best caddis hatch evenings are coming up, but as they trickle out, some days and evenings are more prolific you’ll want to make sure you have the emergers and dries you need to match the hatch. What has been hot for caddis is a pupa fished deep as a nymph. This is becoming one of our top Metolius nymphs, along with Soft Hackle PT’s, Perdigons (purple is my #1 color, but brown and olive are obviously top match the hatch colors), golden stones and drake nymphs. 
It is certainly time to get your golden stone fly box packed if you’ll be in the upper river. A Clarks Stone and Norm Woods are the 2 best we sell. 
Today and tomorrow I love the weather for Bull Trout. Cloud cover and rain makes it likely to get a streamer eat all day long. You can choose from a big articulated streamer, Milk Shake, Head Banger, Sparkle Minnow or go to a small euro jig streamer like a Squirrel Leech in natural.