We have had a nice taste of summer the past few days.  Temps. in the low 80s and calm winds.  As for the North Platte, flows continue to get bumped up on the big three.  The flows posted above are as of 10:00am today.  Upper Grey Reef continues to be the most productive water.  Our guide boats have been coming back with some VERY pleased anglers.  They have been doing well on a short nymph rig and small bugs…LAZYs, foam wing RS2′s, PALs.  The lower river is fishing ok but the little bump in flows seems to be throwing it off a bit….along with no real hatches at this time.   We have been sending a few boats down there and they have been doing pretty well on streamers.  Miracle Mile is also fishing well but has gone up in the past 24hrs.

So Grey Reef has stabilized after it’s last little bump in flow.  We had a group of five boats on the lower yesterday and conditions were good.  As for the fishing…it was a little on the slow side compared to what we have seen over the past few weeks.  Granted, this is the time of year where the lower is in between hatches and the fish are everywhere, eating a little bit of everything. Leeches, worms, eggs, baetis, Sally nymphs, pmd nymphs, etc..  Definitely not a bad time to strip a big ol streamer…. As for upper Grey Reef, it continues to be the hot spot.  Got boats on the water everyday now, until November, so we will keep you posted!

Well, we heard flows are on there way up on both Grey Reef and Fremont.  I guess we will see in the a.m.  Had the first day of the Two Fly today and things went well!  The weather took a pretty wicked swing in the afternoon, 70 to 50 in a matter of minutes….along with a pretty nasty north wind.  Have 12 boats on the tomm. so we will keep you posted.

Projected flows….

GREY REEF 2,300 cfs

FREMONT 1,450cfs

Our guides came back happy this evening.  Most of them did some section of the upper(GR-Gov. Bridge).  Had full-day floats and primer trips both…honestly, it’s been a great couple of days.  1,800cfs has been really good for Grey Reef.  Lots more water to fish and it relieves a little bit of the pressure on the river.  Leeches, worms, eggs, midges and baetis continue to be the big bugs of the week.  We have been seeing a good number of fish on the surface on both Fremont and Grey Reef…conditions permitting.

Alright….so the river levels have been changing a lot this week.  As of right now Grey Reef-1,800cfs, Miracle Mile-1,000cfs and Fremont-500cfs.  All are very good water levels.  Fremont is still fishable but there has been a fair amount of floating debris.  Grey Reef is prime right now!!  1,800 is a great wade and boat fishing level.  At this level lots of soft edges and seams open up…a great place to fish a light nymph rig to a couple of baetis and/or midge emergers.  As expected the Mile continues to fish well with the standard leech/worm/egg nymph rig.

Well, the flows on Grey Reef and Miracle Mile are holding steady at 1,000cfs.  Over the past several days the Grey Reef flows have gradually climbed to it’s current level and from the sounds of it this should carry through the month of May.  We would prefer a little higher but this is a great level for the river to be at.  It opens up more opportunities but still makes for some great wade fishing.  On the nymph end of things baetis continue to our go-to bugs.  Obviously worms leeches, eggs and various midge patterns continue to produce fish as well.  But it has been all about the baetis!

Grey Reef is at 800cfs…it should be at 1,000cfs by tomorrow.

First off, apologies for the lack of fishing reports the last week.  We have been swamped!!!  Well…the fishing on the North Platte right now is nothing short of amazing.  Whether it’s fishing the small bugs on the upper(Grey Reef-Gov. Bridge) or pitching leeches and sac fry down low(Gov. Bridge-Casper)…it’s all good!  Yesterday we fished nymphs to Lusby, then switched to streamers after seeing a 25″+ brown chase a small rainbow to the boat.  The streamer fishing was awesome!!!  A goldie and hh skinny leech put lots of rainbows and a couple of browns in the net.

What a weekend!!!  60s,70s and very little wind.  Had boats strung out from Miracle Mile to Casper over the weekend and per this spring, reports came back excellent…lots of happy anglers.  We can say that the fishing has gotten a little tougher in the early am but as soon as the bugs starting popping the fishing has been crazy!  We are also starting to see a little change in the patterns we have been using.  Less of the big stuff(leeches, worms, eggs) and more small bugs(baetis and midge stuff).  Just about everyone of our guide boats have been throwing dries for a least a brief spell in the afternoon.  A cdc thorax bwo and pop top baetis emerger have been the go-to bugs.