Tonto Creek - Tonto Creek has been slow for holdover rainbow trout, but if you find deeper holes, you’ll likely find schooled-up fish. The key is to get your fly down by the fish as they do not tend to move far for a meal. Anglers have had success of double nymph rigs (Hares Ear and Perdigon) 3 feet under an indicator slowly drifting through pools. Slow stripped leeches and nymphs will also work along the bottom of the creek. Brown trout have been more active this winter. Brown trout inhabit Tonto Creek downstream of the Horton confluence and their density increases as you move downstream. Areas near the campgrounds and downstream of Kohls Ranch (on Tonto NF property) will yield more browns and the chance of an 18-plus incher. Various techniques, including stripping streamers along undercut banks and drifting heavy leeches and nymphs, will lure them out. Some of the larger pools will hold stocked trout that have made their way down from upstream stocking locations. Throwing spinners or Rapalas are also productive in the downstream section of the creek in the deeper holes.