It is the Sisters Quilt Show today and we have been crazy busy! 
The hot days continue across Central Oregon, but it looks like the days over 100 degrees seem to be behind us for now. 
There is a lot of good fishing to talk about, but also some things that have slowed down, and a some places we ought to just let rest until cooler days come again. 

I’ll start on my favorite river, the Metolius. Hatches and Dry Fly fishing have been ok, some days good, some days, or places are not what I’d expect. Gavin and I fished it the other evening from dinner to dark, which is my summertime jam, and often I’d expect to see in 2 to 3 hour period before dark a mix of PMD’s and BWO’s, a good caddis emergence and finally culminating in a Rusty Spinner fall just before it’s too dark to see a dry fly anymore. We finally got the spinners about 9 (and got fish on them too) but none of the other hatches we hoped to see happened with any substance. This is 3 or 4 trips in a row of kind of the same song. 
What gives Fish God’s? What gives?!!
Cycles of nature are interesting, frustrating and exhilarating. 
This is not to say other times of the day are not seeing the same bugs hatching, and in fact they are. I am just sad my after work sessions are like being a 747 pilot, and landing at dark is the only excitement I have found. Otherwise it is boring flying over Kansas if that is the only reason I am going there. But I take pleasure in the changing light, the wild flowers andthe birds, the smell of the forest, and coolness of the river corridor. 
Earlier in the evening, and during the day (Noon to 5) from Candle Creek to Gorge CG look for PMD’s, plenty of Caddis, Yellow Sally’s, some Golden Stones and a few isolated Salmonflies, plus a good chance of BWO’s and then Rusty Spinners at dusk. 
The best Golden Stone hatch action is upper river from Gorge to Riverside CG. Clarks Stones are the favorite, Larimer’s Yellow Sally and Norm Woods are good ones too. 
Nymphing is splendid as per usual, and besides the typical Perdigons, Zebras, 2 Bits, Micro May’s we are having a lot of success on 2 new stonefly nymphs- a TJ Hooker and a Peacock Body Jig Girdle Bug, the latter being also quite effective on Bull Trout this week. 
Our guy Matthias has found a number of Bull’s this week stripping big streamers. 
*I meant to mention this last week, and remembered after I hit publish. Did any of you lose a nice fly box? Someone found one on the river and wrote me and I said I would put it out there and get y’all in contact if you can identify what was was lost. He said it is a nice box and full of good flies so we would love to help find the owner of this.