White Caps On The SPlatte In 11Mike Canyon 19May22

With a substantial pending snow storm inbound to SoCO Fri, the leading low front amassed big winds in 11Mile Canyon. I fished there today despite flows having double over this past week to ~220cfs, and untangled plenty of rigs, but caught a number of fish, none big, on the RFCT. This SageBuster 2020 4 weight is still my goto for many CO rivers. Flows were going up as I waded! Saw some smallish #20 BWO mayflies in the wind, RS2s and Black Ice worked, and some midge larvae and emergers took a couple of browns (!) and many cutbows like those shown… otherwise the flows are way up across the board across CO as snowmelt has begun (but for the Blue & Pan) in earnest.