Hot Fun In The Summertime 10Jul17

Flows on the Arkansas River below Pueblo Rez just dropped today to ~600cfs from above 1Kcfs two days ago so it beckoned me and I complied. While temps reached 100° there, at which time I departed, I caught ~30 fish before departing - just rainbows and cutbows. It wasn't too crowded but for a number of tubers floating the river and billions of grasshoppers... I went upstream from Valco, thinking the upstream water would be cooler; I fished 9:45am to 1:45pm or so. Most of the fish were 12-16" but I did catch one really fat ~20" lady behind the 1st very big weir. The flows are still high for completely comfortable wading, and still poor visibility with green opaque cast; I only crossed/recrossed once and therefore mostly fished the south side. My rig was the same all day given reasonable success and consisted of a BH peacock prince nymph followed by a rainbow warrior followed by a wire wrapped squirmy worm... the prince and squirmy took the most fish but rainbow got several including the biggest. After landing the big bow as a tuber crowd pleaser I promptly lost my second rig to the submerged tree in the big weir - I guess there's always a sacrifice at that hole; I know it has my offerings aplenty. Fish were ~6 ft deep mostly in drop offs. It's good to be fishing again.