Today on the Ranch

Green Drakes, Brown Drakes, PMD's, flavs, caddis...all seen in the last 24 hours on the Ranch. After a few cloudy drizzly days at the beginning of the week, and a brief surge of 2000+ cfs, the weather and river have cleared up. Reports from the river have been quite positive overall for the last couple days with higher numbers of fish caught being supported by some more robust hatches of a variety of insects. There were 14 vehicles at Osborne bridge at 9 pm last night. Can anyone say Brown Drakes? One Ranch veteran of 50 years told me today in his survey that he was just coming off of one of his best days ever. That's encouraging.

The Caldera Project is going great with a couple hundred Angler Surveys completed. We will continue to be out each day talking to anglers in addition to entering some of th e data we're collecting. If you haven't gotten a Caldera Project brochure, or the full Caldera Assessment, go to the Resources link on this page. Be sure to keep checking back in for new articles each week, updates from the river, and in a few weeks, interviews with some notable locals.