How I Spent Prime Day 12Jul16

I hit the 11 Mile Canyon tailwaters and the Tomahawk SWA, both on the Middle Fk of South Platte, on my way to Summit County, on Prime day - rather than wait computer-side for a cheap TV on Amazon. 11 Mile flows were up nicely to ~100cfs and the canyon held gorgeous summer conditions... huge mating balls of mayflies struck the window and flew overhead as I arrived about 9:30am. I caught a half doz decent rainbows on my Winston 4 wt above the upper tunnels in just 100 yards of pocket water. Producers were WWSW and olive vinyl KF midge. I left about 12:30pm for lunch and Tomahawk. I got to South Park and it was a smidge crowded where I park so I thought it'd be great. Flows here were just a skosh high and the river was still off color and pretty cold but after lunch I threw everything I could think of in all manner of rig - double dry, hopper-dropper and all nymphs, with very little action. Similar story was reported by others. I brought some nice ones up to look at the dries but the best I got was nose bumps from bigger fish. The best fish are hunkered in the undercut banks. Weird. I did catch a few tiny browns represented as in the pic on my Loomis 3 wt but mostly it was a gorgeous yet windy day in beauteous South Park. Of course I departed early for $2 Tuesdays at Bakers'.