Many days have passed since my last post to the blog. The conditions for weeks remained unchanged. Bright sunny days, low clear water, sulphurs remained the main hatch and the fishing was excellent some days challenging most, due to the water and the sun.
Last week we had a huge change, the two inches of rain we were lacking for the month of May finally came in one night bringing high muddy water on the Clarion and made the Allegheny not very fly fishing friendly, due to the release from the dam.
Most of my guests fishing with me on the boat don't have the option of driving up and fishing the peak days on the water so we head out and fish what the river gave to us. After many years of doing this the days when most fly fishers would never even think of tying on a fly we've challenged the fish and the river and have succeeded with great success.
The pictures above are of guests that fished with me last week during the low and high water, clear and muddy, and variable conditions that we faced each day.
I will be posting soon about the conditions on the Allegheny River. The forecast is for lower water and once it become a more fly fishing friendly river we'll be hitting the evening hatches and catching some of the big browns that lurk in its deep rifles.

Hope to see you on the water. It's hard to believe fall steelhead season is only 3 months away. Time to start tying steelhead flys.