Clark Fork River Report 8.12.16

Purple, purple, purple! This seems to be the trending color in the Pandhandle for all of our local streams. I am used to hearing purple working on the Kootenai and the Coeur D'lene Rivers, but now the Clark Fork River is catching on... or am I? Regardless, my #14 Purple Keller's Rocky Mountain Mint was the ticket to hooking beautifully healthy rainbows and cutthroat on a calm Clark Fork evening.

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For some reason, the rainbows I did land were on a #12 H&L Variant, and the cutthroat were on the Rocky Mountain Mint. If you have been keeping up with my reports on the Clark Fork, you may have noticed my flies have not changed since the last time I got wet. The answer is very simple, these two flies continue to work. I did try a purple dropper thinking it would be the best thing since the elk hair caddis, but to my surprise, I only caught one with the #14 Purple People Eater (personal tie).

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For experimental purposes, I tried swinging a #12 purple soft hackle which resulted with only a few grabs. After 30 minutes of little action, I decided to get back on the dry fly train, and pick up right where I left off. Every trout I caught were beautiful, healthy, and fought with an attitude. It's nice to see our local rivers stay strong through the driest months of the year.