Gunnison Basin Day 4 - Taylor River 08Sep17

After another nice evening at Rosy Lane - imbued with success at the Lake Fork and beneath the changing aspen and Taylor Canyon cliffs, I rerigged my ghetto fix on the now fully torn Guide vest.  I set out for the C&R (hog) section of the Taylor below Taylor Rez. This section is mysis and tiny flies and I matched what I thought needed but caught only a couple small rainbows. I fished without indicator, with indicator, lighter leaders, smaller flies and everything else but the targets just moved out of the way as my flies hit them on the nose. This is a really frustrating area and rare indeed were others' successes as well, I noted. As mayflies began to hatch I tried a raft of flies and got passes but no takes. At 1pm I left for downstream efforts. I next hit the water across from Cold Spring - I hiked downstream a piece hoping for less roily water and caught a few in pockets but nothing of real note. I drove further downstream to the One Mile and Five Mile sections and still felt daunted by the scale of the water really - I did nothing there - I sense it is higher than prior years when I fished these areas; the Gunnison was like that too. Even near Rosy Lane I caught some small fish but a guide and his client limited my choices some. Prepping dinner of burgers, corn and peppers I thought how wise my mom was picking out the clever utensil set Kala and I have used car camping for many years - I even listened to soothing tunes on the camper stereo. Maybe big fish next year... hmmm.