Two Counties ~ Had To Do It 21Sep21

Kala headed home to prep for a trip to her 50th HS reunion and a visit with her cousins, but I hung in Summit to catch some late summer fish and ready the Nest for real snowfall. I headed over Freemont Pass to the true headwaters of the Arkansas this morning. The valley was awesome with dust on Elbert and Massive still and a strange electric solar sense when I snapped the selfie in the valley.

I caught a number of small browns out of the Kobe access  but it was crowded and I chose to hike downstream till I encountered (not long after leaving) another fisherman, and fish back up. I didn't fish the best spots and didn't fish long. I scared a 16"er but caught the 10"-12"ers on tung head FBPT and RS2.

The story of the day though was that with a "fish on" I dispatched my Bodin graphite net and had to drop it, BUT IT WASN'T tethered! I set the RF Brookie down with the fish on and ran downstream after the net... after 100 yds and too many panicked breaths it caught in an eddy and I recovered it - WTF happened? After rescue I returned upstream to my rod and ultimately landed the fish still on!

The crowds and smaller fish deterred me and I jumped the pass back to Summit. I fished the too thin 10 Mile Ck with a catch and then headed to ORB for late lunch and to taste the latest offers.

Of course I had to do it when learning of the hazy DIPA collaboration with Horus of Oceanside named Trout Season. The view from ORB was awesome this day and I chose the chair of distinction to observe.