Strange Day On The Middle Fork 12Oct17

I am pleased to have all my rods repaired and back in my hand. I was less pleased to be having to deal with an Internet outage in Summit Co which required me to head back out and help the CenturyLink tech to remediate. I went out the back way and fished the Middle Fk of the So Platte near Hartsel. It was very windy so I took a 4 weight to a normally 3 wt stream for me - flows are ~100cfs. I went dry-dropper with the electric red Amy's Ant up top - it did all the damage and hooked five good fish - a rainbow warrior sub-surface hooked another. The strangeness is that I lost 5 of the 6 fish that morning while landing, filming or bringing them in... whaaat? They were a smidge bigger than what I normally catch but that's no excuse. Anyway... here's a pic of the smaller brown. I also enjoyed a new brew for lunch near there - Rupture from Odell, they grind the hops for this one; tasty. I followed up with a stop at Outer Range and enjoyed In The Steep, saw their new cool sign, and bought some canned Blocks of Light. I used the latter and some fine music to deal with the outage. Which is now fixed BTW.