No Browns Or Bigs In 11 Mile 28Jun21

I headed out to the 11 Mile Canyon section of the S Platte today. It was an overcast day of low-60°s and flows have been bumped a smidge to 81cfs; the river looks better and I was looking for clouds to enable mayfly hatches. I was gonna hit the PT and ride afterward but flows were bumped from 500 to 1250cfs, so no way! Fishing was just OK ~ I caught many cutbows but nothing of good size was even visible to me. There wasn't much bug sign today, the tricos must not have started yet, though I did catch some on my trico emerger/drowned trico imitation (black EZWD40). As to mayflies, the PMD PT worked in the afternoon ~ sensible as I did observe a small hatch of red quills and PMDs. The rest were caught earlier on midges whether olive vinyl KF, Top Secret or Juan's Money Midge. While I caught plenty they were all just emblematic of a 14"-16"er day, including one with a dislocated jaw and one lipless. It's kindof crowded with campers beating up the water. I used the Rodfather All Blacks today though it was too much gun (the 4wt is broken). I got a nice strong & accurate feeling from it for sure, and of course mending is dream, but the swing weight of the full 10 feet is more than I am used to with my normal 9 footers.