Bluegrass, Brews and Browns 06Aug16

As the clouds and rain finally subsided after a couple days I headed over to Keystone for the 20th Bluegrass and Brews fest. It was a blast but without Kala or other mates I likely bugged some folks who'd engage me. Three stages of bluegrass and 40 CO breweries to sample... nice. The freaky pic is selfie of me in front of Jeff Scroggins Band on aux stage - excellent. Sunday allowed an outing to the Gore in Vail. I hit the section on the west end of the frontage road first at ~10am. Meh. I nymphed and didn't get a hit all the way to the bridge - water was too cold and no bugs were coming off. I packed up to dine at Dawg Park a couple miles further upstream. It got warmer after lunch and nymphing began to work but I lost four fish in a row to start; including a big 'bow who broke my line in the fight. Grrr. Finally I began to land some browns and a decent rainbow. Best flies were the RS2 and the FBPT as mayflies started hatching. It was a smidge crowded in the dog park as it was Sunday and there was a dog wash stand open. Decent, but far from epic, outing.