New Rivers For The Master 17Jul16

After the Brewery Bikery event Saturday, Greg and I stayed in Summit Sunday to introduce this master fisherman to some of my "local" rivers. In the morning we headed north to the "Jurassic Park" section of the Blue River - this effluent of Green Mountain Reservoir was flowing @ near prime ~450cfs levels and was beginning to show green drake signs - the hatching was very sporadic though. Greg caught a number of fish on a BHFB Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear. I changed rigs a number of times but landed fish on a Green Drake dry as well as the Hare's Ear and Reimagined Black Ice. There were many fishermen on the Blue this Sunday and some passed us multiple times making the fishing a bit more challenging IMO - though we did observe a young master short line nymphing a green drake deep and he was very successful - I took a pic for him with a 20" cutbow. We were "cliffed out" during our downstream hike-in at about 2/3 mile but fished several good sections - we could have crossed but did not really need to so do. Plenty of caddis, mayflies, midges and a few drakes are feeding these strong fish right now - we had a great time but left after the AM without mid-day fuel as Subway opened an hour later than we'd anticipated... we headed to Baker's for late lunch during which we discovered I70 & I25 were completely red so we plotted to hit the Gold Medal section of the Gore at the mouth with the Eagle River. Here we again caught fish but not in epic quantities or size. The water is crystal clear but cold and just a bit high. We were mostly alone but a couple was following us upstream a decent distance back. Greg again caught several browns on WD40. I caught one rainbow on olive WD40 and one brown on a dry foam caddis. It's always a good time fishing and riding (when he uses his extra energy lapping us like a dog doing herding) with Greg - thanks.