Mountain Trout Streams Fly Fishing Report - May 7, 2025

Now is the time to be on the native brook trout streams. There are many hatches still occurring: Light Cahills, Little Yellow Stoneflies, and Sulphurs. The duns of the Light Cahill start coming off in mid-day and continue until dark. The spinners come back at dusk and continue until dark. The last two hours of the day is great dry fly fishing with a Light Cahill Dry Fly size 14. A close fishing friend has great success by fishing a Light Cahill Nymph size 14 all through the hatch. He dresses the whole leader except the last foot of it with dry fly floatant and fishes this upstream dead drift.  Recommended flies for this week: Light Cahill Dry size 14, Light Cahill Nymph size 14, Little Yellow Stonefly Dry size 16, Little Yellow Stonefly Nymph size 16, Murray's Sulphur Dry size 16, Shenk's Sulphur Dry size 16. Fish these on a Murray's Mountain 6ft 6X leader. 

All of the streams in the Shenandoah National Park are clear and fishable by either coming into the streams from the Skyline Drive or the lower boundaries. Be careful that you do not get behind someone and hide your approach--basically stay low and sneak, sneak. Little Stoney Creek west of Edinburg is also getting good reports this week. If you need help to access on the native brook trout streams, stop by the fly shop or see my book Trout Fishing in the Shenandoah National Park.