Two Days - Five Rivers - Haine's Visit 31Jul16

Greg, Rob and I took out to Blue River Canyon on Sat AM after scoring some drakes and Subway. The hike in didn't kill Rob but he did need 4 liters of Gatorade at the end. We hiked in ~1 mile and fished back upstream with drakes and drake nymphs taking the most fish. Shown is a nice rainbow from my bounty taken on a sprout drake dry (which seems like the best drake dry for me here). We all caught fish but it wasn't epic and after lunch we chose to go up to the Colorado River at Pumphouse. It was much hotter there and mobbed with river rats and campers. Flows were 1250cfs and wading was doable if one stayed near the edges. We caught and released (remote or from hand) a number of browns and I'd call fishing pretty good here - a new goto spot. Shown is my nicest brown taken on an RS2 but Pat's Rubber Legs worked for me too. I tried caddis at 4:30pm but Greg was the master in finding the right spot and fly (tan foam caddis) for good dry fly fishing from 5-7pm; he caught 20! A good and full day put us at Baker's for Hawaiians and recovery brews at 9pm. Next day Greg rode and Rob & I hit three rivers; we started at Gore Ck at the mouth, dined at Magusto's, then hit the Eagle River then Cross Ck. We caught fish mostly on the #20 black WD40 on the Gore and shown are my rainbow and good brown. Pizza was good at Magusto's though we had to buy bottled beer for quality. The Eagle was marginal and all we caught were tiny browns - though we did only fish directly downstream from town bridge after consulting Minturn Anglers. I was skunked on Cross Ck but Rob got another tiny brown. I still need to figure out the Eagle River. It was great seeing, fishing and partying with Rob after some hiatus.