Current Lake Conditions:
Sporadic insect hatches can produce surface feeding fish along the west side of the lake. Look for hatches of Callibaetis and small olive #18-20 baetis.

You should have a selection of fly lines when fishing this lake. We recommend floating line for indicators and dry flies, RIO's AquaLux Intermediate Sink Fly Line for swinging and stripping flies at middle depths, and RIO's Deep 7 Full Sink Line for fishing streamers and leeches deep and fast.

The Fly Shop's ? Tips:
You can't go too small. Can you? When using indicators on Lewiston Lake, the takes can be difficult to see and detect, and then the takes can be electric. Successful indicator anglers keep the flies in the water, all the way to the backing, then low and slow retrieve. Sink tip fly lines allow anglers to retrieve leeches, buggers and small nymphs fast or slow. This lake is best fished from a motorized boat, pram or pontoon boat. Float tubes are fine if you are okay with walking back up to the parking lot after the slow current of Lewiston pushes you below the boat ramp.

Look for cruising rainbows along the western edge of Lewiston Lake, south of the boat ramp. Sometimes there are many Callibaetis duns sitting on the surface and the rainbows will move in and out of the shallows along the edges of the lake, slurping these springtime mayflies.

Still Water Fact:
The Trinity River Fish Hatchery is located at the foot of Lewiston Dam. A visit here is very educational and the numbers of steelhead and salmon climbing the steps into the hatchery is really impressive. Best times to view the migrating salmon and steelhead is from late summer through January.

Fly Patterns:

Dry Flies:
• Harrop's Last Chance #18-20
• D&D Cripple Callibaetis #16
• Fox's Scum Dun Callibaetis
• Hackle Stacker BWO #18

Nymphs/Wet Flies:
• Frostbite #18
• Serendipity #20
• Chromies #18-20
• Mercer's Micro May Black #18
• Sparkle Scuds #14-16
• Hunchback Scuds #16
• Zebra Midges (Any) #18-20
• Mercer's Gidget
• Fox's Callibeeotis

Streamers/Leeches:
• Zack's Swimming Leech
• Zack's Damseleech Orange/Olive

Eggs:
• Clown Egg #6-10
• Single Eggs (Any)
• Micro Spawn Yellow

Fly Fishing Gear:

Our Recommendations:
• Outcast Fish Cat 4 LCS
• Outcast Fish Cat 9-IR
• RIO Aqualux Intermediate Sink Fly Line
• Scientific Anglers Wet Tip Fly Line