by Tim Delamatter

Created on: September 18, 2009

The salmon fly hatch-out is a beautiful time to be on the river. Usually you can expect to see the fish become nuts with excitement and determination in gorging themselves on the one to three inch bugs.

If you like trout fishing, then you will thoroughly enjoy this time of the year, if you find trout fishing difficult and the return not very good, then stay away because it can be a bad time as the fish become picky and hard to catch, as they have an abundance of ready to eat food.

The best way to enjoy this fishing is to find a guide who has been around for awhile, and do what he tells you to do. Not many areas have this trout fishing, there are numerous other parts of the world which have certain feeding frenzies wrought by bugs hatching, but the salmon fly hatch-out has become synonymous with catching record size trout.

The best way to catch the big trout during these times is to go either early in the day, or late in the evening when the fish are eating. The early evening times I have found to be the best time for fishing anyway, and especially when there is an abundance of food.

To catch the big one, you have to remember that these trout are waiting for the bugs to drop back into the water after they have mated with the female bug, this means the fish are generally not very far down in the water, or they are near the banks. Sometimes, if you hit the hatch-out perfectly and the bugs are still in the water, you will find the fish gorging themselves on the bugs scrambling out of the water. The bug usually is in the riffles or fast moving water.

Take your jig or fly, and try your luck in these spots, if this doesn't work, then move to the top of where the hatch-out is. Trout are first of all aggressive fish, if the huge ones are full and not biting, they will probably have pushed smaller ones to the fringes of the hatch-out, or maybe the ones full have moved and you can entice them to try one more.

Either way the hatch-out is usually a fun time for trout fishing. Being a trout fishing enthusiast myself, I love seeing big schools of fish and trying my luck. If you're the same way, then make sure you look for this time of year, it's fun.

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