Blue Wing Olive Mayflies! 09Apr20

It was overcast, so that's a start. It was otherwise nice in Pueblo, so that's good. Flows had recently dropped to an ideal 400cfs spring flow, so that's great. Visibility was excellent @ 10 feet, so that helps tons (last week's 800cfs 5 day blowout was just that). And, BWOs were hatching aplenty 10:45-noon! Woohoo. I caught some on midges earlier but this is what we come for... I tied on a 3 mayfly rig with #20 black ice, #18 MHFBPT and either #20 Destiny's Child, a midge, or a #20 RS2. All the mayflies but for the weight performed. The mayfly nymphs and emergers took the bigger fish. I caught a number of 19"-20" cutbows out of Nature Center. I lost two rigs too - perhaps bigger fish. There were lots of midge and mayfly bug signs and the cutbows are still being randy on the redds - so I fished just to targeted (I could see great) feeders off the redds - especially in BWO collecting spots. The fish are not  out in the riffles picking these guys off yet - more in the slack water for them - probably tired from spawn activity. I did spend 30 min casting frustratingly to a supposed nice one feeding, which I later noticed was a rock face shadow - sure I can see fine. I landed one 20" guy who had been nabbed by an eagle or osprey but was on the mend. It is very much "on" now on the PT. I moved upstream to Valco for lunch and to try there in the PM. I only managed 15" chromeos there

I saw a new sign on the far bank near the 2nd weir up from NC parking lot... I don't understand it in the Nature Center area. I stopped to support our fab local brewer Cerberus in these tough times... Kala & I deem Thread of Life a most worthy west coast IPA.