Finally Fishing The Gore 19Jul18

Despite just a 2 star current fishing rating by local shops, I decided to fish Gore Ck today as I had not even been out there yet this season. It was a worthwhile choice as I caught a gob of fish including a nice 17" cutbow at the Minturn end on a caddis dry and a nice 16" brown at the West Exit on a buckskin caddis. At Minturn it was oddly all cutbows - and most on black WD40s.

After a fine lunch at the Rocky Mtn Taco truck and a tasty hazy IPA called Ebb & Flow at Vail Brewing Co, I moved upstream to the West Vail exit.

I started at the end of the frontage road among the townhomes and began to catch a number of browns and some rainbows - here on a variety of flies but the buckskin caddis seemed the most useful. I did land one nicer 16" brown but most were smaller. I also can make a strong "fail" video as I did lose plenty of fish too.

I moved upstream again to the Dawg Pk section and caught some more as evening caddis returned to the river. I include only one pic for this section as it was a Colorado River cutthroat but escaped a good picture leaping back into the river.