Bounty of Browns & 'Bows on Gore Ck 01Sep14

I fished the confluence of Gore Ck & Eagle River right off I70 at the turn at Minturn, CO. I worked a bit in the morning at the condo and got on the water at about 10:15am. My first pass on this ~1 mile stretch was with hoppers and stimis as I saw some nice dark hoppers on the way down to the river and had done well with these in the past here. The water was very  cold and I only mustered one rise and nothing on the dropper. I finally switched to a triple nymph rig at the end of water and quickly brought in several 10" rainbows on a black flash wing WD40. Heartened, I climbed out of the ravine and headed to the car for lunch. At about 1:30pm I hit the water for a 2nd pass - loaded with the nymphing rig dragging the black WD40. I landed many more 12", 14" and a really nice 17" brown (surprising fish for this water) on this pass; I also caught a gob more of the 10-12" rainbows. All fish were on the trailing black midge except three later in the day were on the beadhead, flashback pheasant tail, including the big one.