Tailwater Trico Tricycle 14Sep13

I'm taking Outside magazine to heart: after 65, "work hard, fish harder." After narrowly escaping northern Colorado during the foot tall rain and associated flooding I began to contemplate again the lifecycle of the minute and frustrating trico mayfly still hatching on the So Platte and Arki tailwaters around here. Yes I did see house size propane tanks hissing toward me on the Platte (trapped fortunately by a tree 20 feet from me) along with doomed deer fruitlessly swimming the rage and then trapped by the seines as I crossed the So Platte in Greely. Once across it was smooth driving back home to the Springs. All the while the trico mayfly moves with big translucent wings and nary a body. The trico hatch is still going strong in the morning; fish it 6-10am. Imitate the full life cycle as the hatch progresses. Black RS2 emergers in #22 trailed behind a #20 Black Ice is great 'till you see adults. Then, #22 parachute Adams or AKs trico dun with an RS2 dropper is the ticket. The fun/frustration begins as the duns are gone and the swarms overhead leads ultimately to spinners. Use trico spinners and even RS2s in the film then shift to spinners trailed by drowned spinners. Shown here are the spinner, the drowned spinner, the black mercury flashy emerger RS2 and the black ice (aka weight). Enjoy.

L-R: Trico Spinner, Drowned Spinner, Mercury RS2 Flashwing, Tungsten Black Ice