Scunge, Shizzle, Stones, Summit, & CaddisS 24Apr15

BK came up lame from scunge and DD and Superfly had better offers so just half the CoWWs hit BHSC for the '15 Arkansas caddis hatch outing. Comparatively this was an awesome year - not epic but I did have caddis in my ears, eyes and nose; bugs were everywhere!  Jim didn't have to operate in the field though as I had a buff - and we all caught fish! Saturday was gorgeous as we rolled into 5 Points to set up camp and convene. We hit Pinnacle Rock in the AM and I braved the forge to the far bank and fished subsurface and upstream. Fishing was slow but I caught some on stoneflies. We headed back out after lunch and some Stones; Greg & Jim hung near Pinnacle Rock and I headed upstream from lunch. We all switched to dry-dropper rigs in the PM initially. I'd tied some ShizzleCaddis (which needs reimagining from a conversation with Greg) that morning and Jim & I used these in the PM. It's a black razor foam bodied, black hackled, yearling elk hair caddis (reimagining requires a flash underwing - what was I thinking not including this initially?). Fishing continued marginal but the Shizzle fooled a nice 16+ incher for me and ultimately aided Yoho's breakthrough 4-bagger day. Congrats Jim. Greg was frustrated and took the Ram to Texas Ck area at 3pm and killed it on dries... a 20+ brown trout day. Jim and I stayed near PR and also scored a number of fish on the dries. We both switched to dubl dry rigs at 3:30pm (mine was Shizzle, unreimagined + Caddistrophic, still un-renamed or RoboBWO). We really all enjoyed the rises to caddis and BWOs till about 5:30pm... dry fly fishing is so cool. I confirm the Z-Axis is a better dry fly rod than the newer One. By canyon sunset we convened at camp for fine brats with fixins and more Stones and Deviants. Late conversations near the fire were robust but it ended ~9pm when the boys had to head to COS and I had to bed down. After finding Greg's keys, they departed. I awoke knowing the AM fishing sucked so in a java-induced moment I headed up instead of to the river; I summited the canyon rim, prob +700 ft at camp, pretty quickly for the view and a pan' and then descended in rain. Rain & sleet never let up this Sunday and I packed up wet and headed home. I left $18 on the table but saved a whole Monday for work; what was I thinkin'?