River Report NF Coeur d’Alene, St Joe & Clark Fork 6/30/18

NF CDA -  Is still fishing very well.  I access the river from Wallace via 9 mile canyon/Dobson’s Pass. From The 6th & Cedar Coffee Shop across the street from shop you just turn left and 20 minutes later I am in Prichard.  I almost always turn right and head upstream.  Lately the fishing has been better and it is less crowded.  I fished a few evening this week, both above and below Prichard.  Each night around 7:00 PM a prolific Stonefly hatch came off.  I did land a few of some of the larger fish I’ve gotten this year.  But not as many as I thought with the hatch that was occurring.  There weren’t many fish rising.  I took almost all of mine with a half drowned Kings CDC Golden #10 in the seam of longer, deeper runs.  I think the fish are gorging themselves on stonefly nymphs in the late afternoon.    Nymphing a two rig system deep through these deep runs and pools could produce some epic fish. I’d suggest large #8 Pats, Kyles Golden Stone, Gallup Warbirds or a Double “B” Black Stones.