The Fall River has been consistently good and is worth the time spent over on our 2nd favorite spring creek.
This is the time of year to enjoy more hatches like Blue Wing Olives #18-20, some March Browns #14, possibly a Pale Morning Dun #16, Midges #22-24, Tan Caddis #16 and Grey Caddis #12-14, the 1st Ants and Beetles of the season will be more active as the ground and trees warm, and never discount an attractor dry fly on the Fall River. Hippie Stompers are a shop favorite, especially a Purple one.
Get more action on Jig Streamers and small Sculpzillas and Zonkers, and consider adding a sink tip or sinking leader to your kit for this. Try jigging the undercuts with a heavy tungsten jig streamer or #10 lead eye wooly bugger. Years ago, Tom Brazier of the Numb Butt Fly crew (Tom and Merril Hummer were the “crew”) showed me that Lead Eye Wooly Bugger magic trick, walking softly over the areas known to have a cut bank and dropping the fly beside the cuts and lifting your rod up and down gently to swim the fly right off the bottom with nothing more the leader out of the rod tip. Fish would rush the fly and grabs were intense, but often missed.
Lately I have also done this with a Pinkish-Orange Mop Fly.
It is hard to beat the Euro Nymphing techniques on the Fall River and don’t be shy to do both match the hatch size/shape/color but also crazy stuff like the streamers and mop flies and eggs.
*SPRING SPECIAL GUIDE TRIPS $400 for the day for one to three anglers on the Crooked and the Fall Rivers until 4/21/26