Flow: 182cfs Grant
Clarity: Excellent
Water Temperature: High 40’s
Major Food Organisms: Midges, sporadic caddis, red quills, and green drakes.
Hatches: Midges, sporadic caddis, red quills, and green drakes.

Current Conditions for Boxwood Gulch, Long Meadow, Farmer’s Union, and North Fork Ranch. These are the private leases we guide on. The same conditions are present on all the public water, however, access is limited.

14 Day Forecast: Look for the flows to range between 100 and 200 cfs through October.

Tips and Other Information: Fishing remains productive on the North Fork near Shawnee. Productive patterns include: #16 Hot tail flash eggs, #18 Mercury Red Pheasant Tails, #20 Sparkle Wing RS II’s, #20 Pearl Jams, #18 Red Copper Johns, #18 Mercury Caddis, and #20 Mercury Black Beauties. Egg patterns will become very effective in the next two weeks as the browns are colored up and ready to spawn. Please watch your step and avoid fishing to trout positioned in shallow riffles. Be on the look out for fall-spawning rainbows too.

Effective Patterns: #18 Gold Bead Flashback Pheasant Tails, #14 Pink San Juan Worm, #18-22 Red Mercury Flashback Pheasant Tails, #20-22 Mercury Flashback Pheasant Tail, , #18 Mercury Caddis, #16 Red Copper John, and #8 Amy’s Ant
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