NORTH YUBA
The flow on the North Yuba is 120 cfs with a water temperature of 48 degrees in the late morning. The water is clear. Flows should not get any lower for the rest of the year, especially with the storm that is predicted for Monday of the coming week.
The October Caddis are emerging now and there are good flights of egg-laying caddis in the afternoon from four-thirty in the afternoon until dark. Both adult and pupa patterns will work in the deeper runs and heads of pools in the afternoon. During the morning and early afternoon, we have been using October Caddis cripples with small B/H dark nymphs( #14-#18) on 5x eighteen inches off the bend of the cripple. Most of the fish are coming to the dropper.
FLIES:
NYMPHS: Turkey Bead-Head #12-#16, Golden Stone Nymph #8-#12, B/H Prince #14-#16, Copper John #12-#16,Green Glass Bead Caddis #12-#16, B/H Hare’s Ear #12-#16, FBB/H Pheasant Tail #14-#16, Biot B/H #14-16, October Caddis pupa
DRIES: Parachute Adam’s #14-#16, Elk Hair Caddis (olive, tan, brown and black) #12-14, Flying Ant #12-3x long, E/C caddis #12-#16 in tan and olive, parachute ant #12-#14, beetle patterns, Little Yellow Stones #16-#18, October Caddis adult #8, October Caddis Cripple #8