Breakin' Through On The Arki 28Sep14

Three fiths of the CoWWs plus a special Texas guest star "broke through" on the Arkansas River. We started on the tailwater in Pueblo with modest success then headed out the Arkansas River valley; Rob & I finished on the PT weaponized with midges. The lovable Irish noob, Rob Haine, dispatched himself well and was immediately into a nice rainbow, and trouble, on the PT... setting the hook so fiercely into a tree is ill-advised but DD ransacked the foliage for Rob's flies. Game the entire weekend, Rob taught the CoWWs a bounce rig and a movable thingamabobber... awesome. We did't have the classic stimi + red CJ 40 fish day fall out BHSC as we'd hoped... but friends, food and other finery more than made up for the tougher fishing. Rob landed his first lone-man brown on day one then schooled us all day two evening @ Rincon with the bounce rig. We even caught up with Thomas Doumas at the county line as he was floating the Arki - his friend was hunting and the hunter joined us around the campfire. We all fared decently on the river, dined at Amicas, slept among the blazing aspen at Hayden Ck CG, and will remember always the gumbo, the margs, the enchiladas and the croque monsieurs.