June 7, 2023

Water at roaring river is low and clear.

We are running 28 CFS as of Sunday. This makes for some very good dry fly fishing and very good sight fishing with a fly rod or a spinning rod fishing small jigs and or small plastic worms.

I would recommend the use of 2-pound line right now. You can get away with 4-pound for the first 30-40 minutes, maybe even an hour but then you need to switch out to 2-pound if you want to continue to catch fish mostof the day.

Dry fly fishing is still very good. Beetles and ants are still working very well. We have caught a lot fish this week on blue wing olives, elk hair caddis and Griffiths gnats.

Plastic worms are still catching a lot of fish. You can use less lead now. Sometimes. we are only using one B shot occasionally. In the faster runs, you will need to use more shot, but you can get away with a lot less now.

If you’re fishing power bait that floats, we still use more weight with that so it will sit on the bottom and let the worm or egg or grub float up.

The best colors of plastic baits this week were white, yellow, pink and fluorescent orange. There were still quite a few fish caught on small crank baits this week.

The rebel crawdad and chartreuse worked very well for several people rooster tail type spinners. They do seem to work better for the first 30-40 minutes and then you’re probably better off going back to plastics, marabou jigs or for pick up your fly rod.

Black and yellow, white, olive and tan marabou jigs work very well this past week.

Good luck on the river this week. Have fun!

Roaring River State Park trout-fishing tips are provided by Tim Homesley, owner of Tim’s Fly Shop, located at 23387 Hwy. 112.