Saturday, July 26, 2014

Once Again Into The Fork Tailwater 26Jul14

I hiked into Williams Fork River by 10:20am or so... traffic was a smidge busy on the way to Kremling. I spent ~4hrs on the WF today and fishing was decent despite the mid-day timing. Flows @ 100cfs were < 1/2 they were last week  and I caught fish in different spots but I caught more in total. Evidence is still sketchy as I forgot camera again and just took phone-cam shots... the fuzzy 'bow was big fish on the day, say ~18', but I didn't get him all in lens and then drop kicked him back into water before 2nd chance. All up I caught 9 foot long or bigger browns and a couple of nice 'bows. I saw grey mayflies, but not many, and one egg laying caddis... I had a rig with Obiwan weighted, black ice weighted, olive midge, RS2 and Cheesman emerger at the end. Yep, 4 or 5 flies and indicator most of the day. Nothing on the midge or worm this time. The last 2 took the most fish including both rainbows (which jumped nicely a couple times for good fun) but the black ice played too. Landing was less sketchy this week due to the flows but my hobbled body certainly makes me less agile and pained on any twist or stomp in the river. Thank goodness I didn't biff. It wasn't too crowded but I did see 4 other guys as I fished upstream only from the trail approaching the river.





 Now I'm just waiting out the storm to get back to the boat for a sail - it's looking a bit dubious.

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