I fished with Bob and Bob from the Bay Area today.  We had outstanding weather, so we made a plan to be in the right place in the afternoon for some good dry fly fishing.  The morning fishing was slow - the egg grab wasn't happening and the fish didn't seem to like any nymphs, either.  The only nymph that worked was a size 16 amber prince.  After lunch things got going for us.  There was a good mixed hatch of hydropsyche caddis and baetis mayflies and we spotted a few fish rising.  Bob T hooked and landed a 17" rainbow on his very first cast with a dry fly.  The fish was holding just about 20 feet from the boat!  Then we started to work over another fish that we had seen about 40 feet out.  It looked like a big fish.  Both Bobs took turns making drifts over it.  I switched flies to one of my own caddis patterns in a size 14 and Bob K took another turn.  It only took two drifts and the fish rose enthusiastically.  Bob K played the fish skillfully and ended up landing the biggest dry-fly rainbow of the season, a beautiful 23" buck.

We had a lot more dry fly and dry-dropper opportunities throughout the day.  Much of the time we were casting to spotted fish.  Bob T landed two 18-19" bows on a small nymph under a dry.  The dry fly fishing was pretty technical since the fish were eating the smaller mayflies, but it was a lot of fun!