Lovely month to fish the Metolius

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On the Metolius River I got reports from 2 Phil’s. Phil #1 fishes the river as much as anyone I know (he’s retired but going to be working part time at FFP this season) and had a lot of success on Tan Caddis Pupa, Bead Head PT and BWO Emergers after lunch. Phil #2 has a real job (more than one really) and loves to fish the Metolius on his days off. He went on one of the really cold days a few days back and had this to report: Braved the cold and got out on the Met.  Took a new friend and he hooked a big bull trout the first 5 minutes we started fishing despite it being 9deg!  There was quite a bit of action that day.  I got another one late in the afternoon and managed to get it into the net when it popped off!  Took a sz14 pink butt blowtorch style fly I tie.  Saw another guy land a smaller bull and he said the guys there before him caught two.  
And thanks to Matt for this: My son and I spent the long weekend on the Met, focusing mostly from Allingham down to canyon.  Mostly nymphing but some dry fly action for a 1 hr window in afternoon, PMDs and BWOs.  Caught a lot a large whitefish on eggs and golden stone nymphs.  My son caught a really nice 16” redside, I caught a couple browns (#18 rainbow warrior trailing off golden stone nymph).  Cold fishing but a lot of fun.
So as you can see the diversity of the fishing is strong from Dries and Emergers, to Nymphs fished Euro or Indicator Style and Streamers for Bull Trout. That’s pretty typical but also pretty cool. I love February as a month to fish the Metolius too, it seems the biological activity, meaning growth and movement of the insects is ramping up for spring that is just a short month away.

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