Smerf, nothin' like a hatch, spinner fall, or caddis egg-laying event to get the fish, and the fishing, going. I've been fishing a great hydropsyche caddis emergence on my local tailwater, and while it ain't always easy, it's a blast, and the big, wild trout are out to play! And yes, I feel that emergers/cripples will almost always outfish a high-riding dun pattern. The time the duns spend on the water is relative to the species, and the air and water temps. Some species have more trouble than others emerging, and low temps slows down the ability to "inflate" their wings and ready themselves for take off. Hope you're able to catch another hatch soon. Unsolicited tying tip...if you are crowding the hook eye when tying, or getting materials blocking the eye when you tie them off, heat a thin diameter bodkin or needle till it's red-hot and poke it into the hook eye, just like you were threading tippet through. It'll burn the excess out of the way, allowing you to get your tippet through when you're onstream. But, if you get too much thread over the eye when you tie off, and use this technique, you can cause the whole shooting match to unravel, so use caution.

Interesting phenomena the other nite on the Henry's Fork. We were perplexed as what the few moving around rainbows were taking with a number of bugs on the water. Some were taking a nymph, an emerger under the surface. This is the time for Grey Drakes to spinner fall is the fishery, but they weren't taking the big spinners floating down beside my driftboat.
There was a good sized caddis egg laying, but not many..probably the green rock worm caddis as it is known in the larval stage.(I can say the tech name, but can't spell it) A few PMD spinners floating by. My friend managed to catch one big rainbow and that was it. But when we left at dark and got on the hwy I ran into lots of bugs smashed on my windshield, and the hood of my car, and the grill. I picked one off the next day that was somewhat in tact, ended up calling Chris Lawson at Henry's Fork Lodge, and identified it as a BWO..about a # 18. BWO Spinners seldom create a fishery, probably because the come to water after dark, and these probably thought the hwy was water...that happens. bugs can be fooled into thinking a paved road is a river.

Wow! What a time on the Henry's Fork of the Snake right now. If you like to challenge yourself on the bugs, this is the 400 level course. There are Green Drakes that come off, lots of PMD's, Grey Drake Spinners that have been thick in the evenings, caddis in the evenings, and now Brown Drakes in the evenings. Flavs are also starting..they are a small, Green Drake type of Olive. It is challenging figuring out what a fish is feeding on, and one fish can feed on something, and the next fish be feeding on something else. And it isn't all dries. The other evening we had some big backs come out of the water feeding on a sub surface emerger. Not something I get involved with much. I'm a freestoner, and throw a lot of big bushie attractors at the banks floating down the river.

We are a very dry climate. Vast desert area not far from the upper Snake system. I lived on the West Coast, Seattle area where it was very humid, and at elevation zero, and now I am at 4,500 ft. and dry. My sinuses dry out, and cause me a problem. I lived in the MidWest, and know that humidity problem...Bellevue, Oh. up around Lake Erie. We can be 80 F and friends would comment on how miserable that must feel, and it doesn't in the dry climate. I thoroughly enjoy the area. I bird hunt around 75 days a year making the Winter shorter, and am on the SF of the Snake in my small jetboat, or driftboat, or on the NF of the Snake, called the Henry's Fork as well, in my driftboat (no jetboats allowed) about 75 days a year. Need any info on the area, let me know, Or, I'd even envite you on a float trip. We might even have to navigate around a moose standing out in the middle of the river.