Arkansas In Late Summer 20Aug18

With cooler days on the WE I was hopeful the Ark in BHSC would fish well. I headed out but had to add 30 min to the drive as the lower canyon was chocolate milk from Hayden fire runoff - above Coaldale the river was nice at 300 cfs. I went all the way to Rincon and caught a gob of browns and one rainbow on nymphs: stoneflies, psuedo baetis mayflies and black midges. I tried a couple big top flies but got no action there. The water felt the right temp but I really don't consider it epic by any means - are the 50 fish days on these waters over? It's been several years for that kind of action for me - plus the fish seemed smaller today. I left pretty early after lunch as the mid-day action slowed.