I fished Police to Mac on Monday June 14th with John and Tim.
We got out a bit early as we had to be back in Calgary by 6pm.
Water conditions are colored but very good for streamers. Two to 2.5 feet of visibility. Water is up but nowhere close to runoff levels. We need a solid push of water to clean things up.
I streamer fished hard from the boat and when we stopped and can honestly say I might have had one bump! I never saw one chase off the bank. Meanwhile the other two guys hooked fish very regularly on their nymph outfits. I am a bit of a hard-headed streamer guy so I stuck with it for several hours but finally enough was enough and I worked the nymph rigs and no surprise started to hook some fish. All I have to say is that it was a worm day! It  pains me to say it but that was the reality of the day. All but one fish was caught on a worm. We all had large browns (over 22 inches) on. John was the only one to land his. He got two beauties. They were a couple of the nicest browns I’ve seen in quite some time. As healthy and good looking fish as you can ask for anywhere in the world. Fish were not on the banks and we did not see any stonefly shucks on the bank. The PMD’s were hatching nicely as well as a few caddis and some very dark mayflies that are likely Western Dark Hendricksons (thanks Greg.) A few small fish were eating these mayflies on the surface. Once the larger stones start to hatch fish will move to the bank but they sure weren’t there on Monday. It was nice to watch a couple of good anglers work nymph outfits (particularly from the bank) otherwise we would have had a VERY slow day. What a great river we live by now if only we could teach these fish that they should eat streamers and dries all the time!!!