Elevenmile Friday Afternoon 16Aug13

Afternoon run to the canyon. Left work about 2pm and after a stop for gas, sinus meds and beer I was in the canyon about 3:30pm. I set up at Messenger Gulch as I needed to use the facilities and thought why not, no other fishermen in sight.  I started out nymphing but after about 30 min of not much luck and observing a tiny hatch of something coming off I switched off to a small Adams and a small top secret emerger trailing. I caught one brown and missed a couple others on the Adams but it was still pretty slow. I noticed some Caddis starting to come off and cut off the emerger and added a EHC for a dual dry setup.  They really started hitting the EHC and I brought about 6 nice browns(9-10in) to the net.After fishing out that section, I decided I was going to move up river to see if I could raise some bigger fish.
After moving up to just past the tunnels and seeing a lot of traffic I decided to try that section, was about 5pm. I tied on an EHC dropping a black bead head midge. That seemed to do the trick and I did well for the next hour or so on that setup with eight nice fat bows brought to the net about equal number on the EHC and midge. Fishing slowed and I took off about 7:30 to head back home.