Excellent Elevenmile Embarcation 12Apr16

I fished a couple hours at 11 Mile Canyon this afternoon on my way back from Silverthorne. Flows are extremely low (~50cfs) but the fish are easy to spot. Too, there's tons of spawn activity in this primarily cutthroat, rainbow and cutbow fishery. I had an excellent afternoon while it lasted... a storm rolled in and it ultimately snowed, rained and sleeted on me. I was very cold but still catching fish, till I couldn't move my hands really any more. All the fish were cuts or cutbows and I landed a number of big fish (for 11 Mile) ~18". I took my 4wt Winston for the outing. My rig was pretty consistent with no weight and often no indicator, a purple-headed FoD followed by Jimi's Axe and dropping an olive KF Flasher. The Axe and KF took the most fish but I caught one on the FoD. Though, when the BWO hatch was on, I caught two fish on a dry (RoboBWO)! I did see both BWOs and midges hatching. I didn't fish but from the bridge to the upstream hole above the CG, even skipping a big patch to avoid another fisherman - I was plenty busy. This is my first outing to 11 Mile this year and it was a great reunion and very few fisherman (for 11 Mile).