I hope it's the last day in the snow (I'm getting tired of it as to fishing) but who knows. I headed to Casper to grab propane, beer, gas and purple tying thread in the AM, in the snowfall. I awoke to sleet-bathed Crusher so had to dig out after coffee. Got it all done and "when in WYO" I should enjoy some Jackson brew so will partake of Pako's IPA along with my Melvyn's tonight.
Upon returning to Alcova my intended Grey Reef drop-in was overwhelmed with humans ("opening day" is May 1st on a special section here, everyone knows) and the drive to the Miracle Mile was wanting... so I passed both up for another section at Grey Reef somewhat under appreciated seemingly.
I should mention that the Casper section of WYO G&F is well staffed and I needed to produce my fishing license on two occasions. Sheesh - climbing out of the river is both good for warmth but also a pain-in-the-ass; I've never been "pulled over" in COLO at all and yet here 2 of 4 days were interrupted.
Again I caught many gr8 fish and watched as dory boats and pontoon 1-mans floated through my piece of pie. Good PM but still cold and snowy on me most of the outing - I ended a bit early again to warm up and do camp stuff. Still my motto here: "follow the swallows" especially when it's snowing.
I did not get this 19"er's phone number or direct pic show.
It's always nice to land a nice one with the guide boat watching.
20"ers are always a benefit. I left the river and the skies opened to let the sunshine in - so nice - felt good.
Post-Scripts: smaller fish today for whatever reason - biggest a 20" with a 19" 2nd; all rainbows/cutbows again; tungsten silver & black zebra did early work while #22 grey vinyl KF and #22 Jimi's Axe midges did the middle tasking during midge hatches and #18 mercury head FBPT did damage during the massive BWO hatch (no heads were up for it so no dry flies here). Pako's is good.
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