Halloween On The Arki 31Oct14

Daryle and I stole a Friday and hit the Arki "one last time" this fall in Big Horn Sheep Canyon. It was a gorgeous crisp fall day and we arrived ~10:15am at Pinnacle Rock (after discussing results of my knee MRI with the doc). I was immediately into fish at the east end of runs there as I caught the final moments of the morning midge emergence - my red-headed black silver wire flash emerger was working. I then crossed to the far bank and fishing slowed but I still caught smallish fish on black midges, an RS2 and the best fish on "the weight," a tung BH pheasant wire wrap thing I do in fall colors. Fishing was not awesome... we saw redds but no breeding; we saw midges but no BWOs or hoppers; we saw no dry fly action; water was clear but still  >400cfs and a challenge to wade and fish IMO. DD hooked one in the afternoon at Lone Pine and I did nadda... 'tis better to have hooked and lost than never to have hooked at all. Still, it was great to be out there.