The Arkansas River Headwaters 27Aug20

I dropped into the Ark headwaters downstream from Leadville on a nice day, but after a storm yesterday that dirtied the water a bit. I fished upstream from the first big bridge crossing and was just the 2nd car there - the first car might've been there all night as it was covered in dew and he needed a jump. I caught a number of browns like those shown. I didn't see a lot of hopper sign or even other bug sign on the river and the floating top fly worked just once. I even decided to go nymphing exclusively late AM. Best flies were the BHDCEZWD40 in black and a peacock prince nymph. The area got pretty crowded around noon so I headed back to Summit for lunch and to meet up with Kala. A good, but not great, day... even Periodic Brewing in Leadville was closed - so a stop at ORB for a hazy & tuna poke with rice tots from Bird Cafe was in order; heck it's better anyway.