What truly amazes me is how this fishery gets taken to the wood shed and beaten like an ugly step child on a daily basis, yet continues to provide excellent fishing. There is a bunch of eager fish in Hot Creek and if you can make a decent presentation during the multiple hatches that occur this time of year, you will go bendo.

The morning caddis and PMD emergences are special right now and you can pretty much fish dries or adults by 8 am. If the sun is bright or you have some fish with a negative attitude towards being hooked try hanging a dropper or short tied emerger using caddis or midge pupa. #18-22 work fine. Rig your leaders @ 9-11 feet, 5X and 6X tippets.

The flows are close to ideal and the fish are nicely spread out over the entire habitat. You may find larger concentrations in the deeper pools, but more aggressive feeding in the riffle water, and tailouts. There are good numbers of less touched fish holding in the faster pocket water and soft sections on the north side (opposite bank from the main trail) of the crick. Fishing these spots requires technical presentations and accurate casts utilizing reach, pile, and stack mends. You will also find fish holding along the softer water on the near side right along the banks edge. Use an upstream approach with mends towards the opposite bank to keep your fly line off the flies drift track.