ESP Day 2 - North Fork Shoshone Float 18Jul19

The guided float of the lower section of the North Fork was awesome. Despite some 25mph winds creating issues, it was a great day in a gorgeous river canyon and I caught many largish fish. The guide mentioned the wind is some of the worst he'd experienced and was glad I could cast. Tyson was a good and cool guide - he sure earned his tip rowing hard and long. This is a large freestone river and I fished for 8 hours on the section leading in to the Buffalo Bill Reservoir and caught 2-3 dozen fish including a couple browns and a couple whitefish. Tyson mentioned this was pretty atypical as it is considered a cutthroat, rainbow and cutbow fishery. Here it was all about the stoneflies and I was double rigged with big heavy prince nymphs - one tan and one purple. Nothing subtile here as those big flies were tied to 3X tippet. Most of my cutbows were 16”-18” but I did get a couple of 20”ers. Many of them are very chrome-colored which might come from spending time in the lake. It seems like a very productive fishery if I did this well on a reasonably tough day with high flows.