Snagged 'Em On The PT 13May16

I was a late arrival on the PT but there were not too many fishermen upstream from Valco. I had not hit the upstream section in the AM yet this year but the hot day suggested it might be OK. It was windy and still slow for the first hour but picked up 11am to 2pm. Topping it off were rising flows while I was there... ~200 to start and seemingly like ~350 on departure... sheesh. The combination of factors had me strangely snagging more fish than hooking them righteous. The biggest ones I took fooling them however. I did land a mess of fish in the AM and then in the heat of the day 2pm-4:30pm I was skunked. All was not lost then as I did observe monster rainbows feeding openly at the Nature Center... I was not stealthy enough to fool these beasts but I know where they are. Too as noteworthy, I was at the big weir just below the hatchery effluent in the morning with a big fish on when my reel failed again. It seized and I lost that fish after a big downstream run but fishing was good so I attempted field repair and dumped some parts into the river - but fishing was good so I saddled up and landed some using strip retrieves and deft hand. Now I gotta chase a repair of my GLoomis reel. Satisfactory day but the bigs are more elusive.