It was most decent in Pueblo (rather than snow in 11 Mile) so I hit the PT @ Nature Center yet again - my 12th outing there this year. It was only 50° and featured a full day of cloud cover, so I was hopeful for a good BWO hatch. Flows were oddly way back down to 92cfs, making fishing pretty technical again. I started at 11am due to the cold AM and in hopes of just scoring the BWO hatch immediately... and I did. Plus, the clouds aided an extended hatch which came in 2 waves: one from 11:30 - 12:45 and another 1:30-2:30. Just when I thought it was over, and changed my rig @ 1pm, the starlings went crazy overhead again and I had to change back. Today I caught many med-sized fish, and not all trout, but just one 20"er. All cutbows but one were on some BWO nymph - either the RS2, MHFBPT or Destiny's Child. I did attempt the spinner fall when the fish were sippin' but I didn't tie on a 6X tippet and my 4.5X just can't float a dry clean - no takes and no wonder. The fish have definitely moved throughout the river and out to the riffles for the hatches, but I still caught the 20" behind a weir (it was a targeted "2 footer" which came in shy - looked bigger due to water optics). I also caught a couple of massive suckers via snagging by accident. Here's a small sampling of today's catch. Grey lenses are not the ticket for flat light - hmmm.
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