Just Good Fishin' At 11 Mile Canyon 03May16

I headed to 11 Mile as planned today. Awesome sunny day but a little chillier out there... plenty of snow on the ground still but the road was pretty dry. There were plenty of fishermen but I found spots ;) - flows were very low and fish were easily spotted. I used this to target feeding fish which were more at the heads of runs and riffles rather than lying in the holes. Water was pretty cold with the snowmelt but many fish were feeding. I fished from about 10am-2pm and while I didn't see a hatch to speak of, my bugs were working great and I caught over two dozen fish - including the first 3, which were ugly (scunge on the back of the rainbow, colorless brown and check that weird cutty with a broken jaw), but gave me an immediate triple. It was still mostly rainbows and cutbows with the biggest probably ~18" - most were ~14". I tried an all purple rig for a while and finally caught my first fish in 11 Mile on the black ice. Jimi's Axe (purple haze variant) fooled the most fish but Top Secret, Olive KF Flasher and mercury head RS2 did plenty too. It is worth commenting too that I'm trying a new indicator rigging which seems handier, more secure and more easily tuned. Its called New Zealand strike indicator for which a little piece of plastic tubing is slid over a loop in the leader (using the tool) and then "wool" is pulled through the loop and tightened... worked well at 11Mile where I wanted to trim the wool down significantly. It also seems a bit more sensitive to hits than thingamabobbers, and it doesn't slip. Speaking of sensitive - I just took a spin in Yoho's new Maserati - holy F3^*. Looking forward to the CoWW outing at BHSC!