GR8 Outing ~ Fall On Willy's 20Sep18

I was dubious on the lower flows of 70cfs on the Fork but ventured out given the blue sky report and my having not been there recently. I was even more dubious on arriving at the 8th car to the lot! I should've been dubious on the 0% chance of precip as an hour after arrival I was in hard rain and dime-size hail (without my raincoat - dumbass), but with a nice 17" rainbow on so... I muddled through. Given the crowd I predicted behavior, where the confluence is attractive for browns in the fall, and fished the upstream section first - it seems to to have worked as I actually saw very few other fisherman (except the one older guy arriving as I was releasing my first 'bow. The weather soon enough shifted to just cloud cover, then sun - I stayed about 3 hours 11-2 and landed 10 nice fish - 5 browns and 5 'bows, all 16"-18" like these. Plenty of bug sign on arrival and continuing most of my outing - BWOs and midges dominated the menagerie and the most effective imitations for me were the merc head grey Medora wing RS2 and my grey vinyl KF Flasher midge. This was the best day fishing for me since spring and while I caught nothing 20" or better, I was close and it was a blast on a keen fall day among the colored cottonwoods. I celebrated with Whole Foods custom tacos and hazy IPAs from ORB, then chased with a DeadHead custom hazy ltd edition from Destihl - Touch of Haze (reference to The Dead's Touch of Grey - appropriate for my grey bug success today).