The river is flowing at about 254 cfs today and is still fishing pretty well. It sounds like there’s some black stoneflies and some sallies coming off down there as well as tons of caddis of course. There’s still been some decent dry fly action in the evenings and the nymphing has been good throughout most of the day. It is getting a bit warmer around here so the bite seems to slow down a bit from around 11:00am to about 3 or 4:00pm, this is pretty typical for Summer. The streamer action still seems to be slow from what we’re hearing. Some patterns to try down there include: elk hair caddis, E/C caddis, razor caddis, parachute adams, chubby Chernobyl. zebra midge, flashback emerger, perdigon, psycho prince, micro stone, rainbow warrior and silver streak.

Also, some food for thought, in the Fish and Wildlife Departments infinite wisdom they have decided to not make barbless hooks mandatory on the East Walker, this is absolutely going to be detrimental to the life if this amazing river in the future, if you care at all about the East Walker and its sustainability, please pinch your barbs, if everyone adheres to this practice it will help the East Walker River to keep on being a world class fishery. Thanks for your consideration.