Fifth Day - Fifth River - Fiftieth Fish - Fun 05Sep14

Yestereve brought the 1st good high elevation snow of the season, and rain around Silverthorne. It was cooler today and some aspens are changing... it didn't reach 60 in Summit but was warmer further west. After another mornin' at the laptop I snagged some lunch and headed to the Eagle River out Eagle Co way. I packed to do some work on the boat but that didn't happen. This was my 5th afternoon in a row fishing in the central mountains of CO and my 5th different stream - today's spot on the Eagle was new to me. It seems like brown trout dominated outings as that's what the Eagle yielded to my offering of yellow+orange wire prince nymph, red-headed black nymph emerger and black or olive beadhead WD40-alike. I saw PMDs launching but no rises so stayed subsurface. My best "luck" was at the head of deep runs or in deep rock cover and I landed fish, lost fish, and dropped fish (without pic) from 10"-17" aplenty from 2:30-5pm on the Eagle. This is kindof vindication as my last outing to an alternative location on the Eagle was a bust last year (see the 20Jul13 post - "the eagle did not land"). Each fly in the triple scored its takes and I think two fish which broke off were bigger than the best landed 17"er. I was really surprised of the size of some of these fish in this water - I sketchily waded mid-stream on large rocks between apartments overhanging the river and with the buzz of I70 in my ear. I then rode 15 miles on the Vail trail before dinner. Colorado is so cool.