Just Good Fishin' On The PT 02May16

Its May but the fishing is still very good on the PT... I hope you guys are getting some of this. Today turned the corner on weather so I headed south and found no snow and no fishermen on the Pueblo effluent. I was resigned to 600cfs and outfitted appropriately but by the end on day flows had dropped to 200cfs - weird. The AM was stellar out of the Nature Center and while the PM was a little slower out of Valco, it still produced. I've been gone a couple weeks and fish have moved out from the weirs downstream but are still mostly behind them upstream (or it might've been the flow drop). The entire stretch upstream from parking at NC was great - every spot a fish or two. The weir right below the hatchery was then again astounding on midges at 4:30pm. My rig was consistently attacked at the RS2 and even more at the Awesome Midge. The hatches were gargantuan in the AM - spinner fall was there and guys were sippin' but I stayed with emergers and nymphs. I caught some big fish as typical on the PT, and a few small ones, and one brown in the bunch. I lost a half doz too - my reel broke mid-AM and seized on a torpedo resulting is a disappointing loss but then wouldn't reel in well at all so several landings were by stripping and feeling it. I fixed it I think. The day was sweet - now off to the So Platte and then the caddis hatch in BHSC.