Fishing has continued to be pretty good here on the Bow. In any given day fish have been eating anything from a trico spinner on top to a big Sex Dungeon sub-surface, so it is dealers' choice when it comes to what style you want to fish right now.

The Bow has been consistently at the 90-100 CMS for the past few weeks. Because things have been pretty stable for water flows, fish have been able to find comfortable spots to eat flies. So if you head out to hit the water, hitting the textbook "fishy" water will produce. That fishy water we would be referring to would be anything along the lines of deflections (seams from rocks or other obstacles in the water), big seams flowing at a walking pace, diamond chop (usually found on the back end of a riffle. AKA nervous water), tailout's (the back end of a run as it shifts from nervous water to slicks), and if all else fails prospect the deep stuff!

Right now there are three main rigs you want to try, two consisting of hoppers and the other being a streamer rig. If you want to go the dry fly route then our top suggestion is going hopper dropper with either a caddis pupa or a Reese's Pieces worm as your dropper for the faster-moving water. And for the slower more dry fly conducive water, you are going to want a hopper dry-dropper with a caddis or a small trico spinner as your trailer about three feet back. With both of these, we would suggest going with a hopper in the 8-12 range as those have been the most prevalent sizes we have seen down by the water (you may see bigger ones though). As for the streamer setup, it is going to be the double streamer rig that is the breadwinner. The best pairing for this rig has been either a Sparkle or Kreelex minnow as the front attractor pattern and then a black or olive leech (no bigger than #10) as the trailer.

When it comes to what section of river to fish there hasn't been one part that has fished better than another for the wade fisherman so no choice will be a bad one. I will say that if you want more dry fly opportunities then we would suggest sticking more to the city as it sounds like that has been better for risers.

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