• 6 weight rod. If possible: 3 through 5 weight
• Floating lines. Rarely: sink or shooting heads
• Polarized Glasses
• Quality Breathable Waders
• Gravel Guards
• Quality felt soled wading boots (spiked boots are a plus)
• Wading staff (optional but recommended)
• Quality breathable rain gear Midweight and expedition weight
• Fleece for insulation under waders and for upper torso
• Fleece jacket(s)
• Quality heavy duty wading socks
• Long sleeved fishing shirts
• Wide brimmed hat, and/or baseball cap for sun
• Sunblock
• Leaders, 7 1/2 and 9 feet, 2x, 3x, and 4x
• Tippet, 2x through 5x
• Fingerless fishing gloves, fleece and/or sungloves
• Personal medications
Dry Flies
• Stimulator, sizes 8 - 16; yellow, olive, orange
• Elk hair caddis, size 10 - 16
• Goddard caddis, size 10 - 16
• Parachute Adams, size 12 - 16
• Turck's Tarantula, size 8 - 12, yellow, olive, and natural
• Madam X, size 8 - 14, yellow
• Chernobyl Ant, size 8 - 12, black/tan, black/black and black/orange
• Parachute Ant, sizes 14 - 18
• Parachute Hopper, sizes 6 - 14, tan and olive
• Black Beetles, size 8 - 16
• Dave's Hopper, size 8 - 12
• Hexagenia mayfly adults and cripples, sizes 6 and 8 (Dec - mid Feb.
only)
• Cicada, sizes 8 - 12
• Royal Wulff, sizes 10 - 16
• Humpy, standard or royal, sizes 12 - 16, Yellow, Red, Olive
• Trudes, black, royal, or peacock, sizes 10 - 14
Nymphs
• Bead Head Prince, sizes
10 - 16
• Bead Head Pheasant Tail (flashback or natural), sizes
10 - 16
• Bead Head Hare's Ear (flashback or natural), sizes
10 - 16
• Bead Head Red Fox Squirrel nymphs; sizes
10 - 16
• Bitch Creek nymph, weighted, sizes 8 - 12
• Soft Hackles, size 12 and 14, olive, tan, and orange
• Montana Stone, weighted, size 8 and 10
• Bead Head caddis larva and pupa, size 12 - 16, olive and tan
Streamers
• Black, Olive, White weighted Wooly Buggers, sizes 6 - 10
• Matukas, olive and black, sizes 6 and 8
• Spruce fly, Natural and Furnace, sizes 8 and 10
• Kiwi muddler, natural and olive, sizes 6 and 8
• Muddler minnow, natural, sizes 8 - 12
• Double Bunny, olive/white, sizes 4 and 6