Flows are still at 53.9. Sight fishing is still the way to go, but blind casting into the deeper holes and pools have been productive as well, especially if you like to use streamers. We've been using dry droppers, not neccesarily because the dry fly fishing is overly good, but beacuse the fish see a lot of indicators, and the dry is less likely to spook fish. Fishing pressure has been fairly heavy, so often taking a more technical approach will help. Hatches have been primarily Midges, and BWOs.

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For dries, use a Sparkle Dun BWO, Hanging Midge, AR's BWO Adult, Parachute Adams, Chubby Chernobyl, Film Critic, Mole Fly, Ms. Tickle Cripple in BWO, Hot Mess Midge, AR's BWO Emerger and a Dry Humper.

For subsurface presentation, use a HDA Variant, BTS Mysis, Jigged Mysis, Simple PTN, Baby Gonga, Barr's Emerger, Sculpzilla, AR's Perdigon, RS-2, Lil Bit, Hogan's S&M Nymph, Juju Baetis, and a Croston's FMJ.

Despite its location and a good population of trout, not many people consider the Blue their favorite river. However, for those who know the Blue, “Big trout,” “Broken tippet” and “the one that came off,” are all phrases that are commonly heard as those anglers head home from the river.

It hasn’t always been that way; improvements on the Blue over the last four or five years have benefited the fishery. New catch-and-release regulations to strengthen the population of larger fish and the fact that the rainbows, browns, and brookies in this river have bellied up to a diet of seafood – a white shrimp called Mysis – have played a big part in these improvements.

The Blue below Dillon Reservoir is not a typical Colorado tailwater. In fact, fishing the Blue below Dillon is a somewhat urban experience – it flows through Silverthorne, and those fast food joints, gas stations, and factory outlet stores make a strange setting for a gold medal trout stream.