Eagle Nest Lodge

Bighorn River Brown Trout

It is fishing extremely well. The flow was at 3,000 cfs on Tuesday and the  water temp was 39-40 degrees at the Afterbay. There has been a lot of dry fly  activity from 10 a.m. on. Fish will take a Griffith’s gnat and cluster midge in  size 16-20. Nymph fishermen should try a pink or tan firebead Ray Charles  (14-16). Try a root beer midge pupa or cream midge pupa (18). A few guys are  stripping streamers in black or olive wooly buggers. There haven’t been any  signs of rainbows getting ready to spawn. That should start in mid-April.