The Blue is back to the lower flow of around 60 cfs, down from the 120+ that it had been for about 5 days. The fishing has been good recently, and it seems the bump in flows puller some fish from downstream up towards the dam. There are a good number of rainbows in the 16-24 inch range right through Silverthorne, with the largest concentration seeming to be the top 500 yards of water. These fish are starting to get spooky with the daily pressure from anglers, and smaller indicators with light fluorocarbon tippets are making the difference. Try a small white Palsa, or a smaller Glow in the Dark Thingamabobber for added stealth. Less weight and longer indicator to fly distance helps to keep your indicator out of the fish's line of sight. Adding extra split shot and straight line, or tight line nymphing has been very effective as well. Large bright indicators may have a tendency to drive fish away from your offerings. The fish have been taking mysis of all sizes, as well as a few glow bugs and a variety of midges. Dry fly fishing is not quite there yet, but get better by March as the high temps warm the water and get the hatch going strong. For now midges seem active from 11am to 3pm, but there wasn't but a few sporadic rises. The fishing is good, but the heavy pressure makes for some spooky fish. They are tolerant of anglers, but slow stealthy anglers are really doing the damage on the Blue. Below the town the fishing is decent, but it seems that the fish numbers are down from a few weeks ago. The fish up in town had to come from somewhere?? The Blue should fish well as we creep out of winter, and get better through March into Spring. Pray for more SNOW!!

Below Green Mountain has been hit or miss. Some anglers doing well, and others struggling. Try leeches, craneflies, stones, or eggs as a point fly, with smaller baetis, midges, scuds, and sow bugs dropped behind. The flows are low, and the wade fishing is good for a winter angler. Walking downstream and slowly stripping or swinging streamers has been good as well, but you have to slow it down. Nymphing the deeper pools and runs with eggs, stones, scuds, and midges has been the most successful this winter. Fish seem to be hanging in the softer water on the edges, or the tail outs of deeper runs. This section also starts to fish better come the longer days and warming sun of March. The canyon immediately below the dam is steep and tight, not letting much sun on the water; and thus not much warming takes place just yet. With a good, diverse population of bugs: fishing a larger stone or drake nymph with smaller baetis dropped behind. Scuds, sow bugs, midges and glo bugs are all good to try this time of year as well.