It's June and Greg was right, Grape Ck was hot and hot. It was over 90° as I left on the still-really-shitty 4WD road out, but fishing was fire. The fish are not big here, I'm showing the better ~15"ers, but they seem eager for almost anything (though I did get some rejections on the dry) and the flows were a smidge low but great for wet wading in the Astrals. Wet wading made it pretty comfortable. I used a tan UV Chubby and BHPT dropper all day and scored 2/3 on the dropper and 1/3 on the floater. I hiked downstream from the end of the road in West Bear Gulch at 10:30am for about 3/4 mile and was scoring ~15/hr on my way back to the car. There were a lot more rainbows caught on this outing than in prior years for me here; over half were 'bows. I wielded the Rodfather Lightning Rod 8'2" fast 3wt - it seemed perfect and shot 30 ft well but only snagged in one tree. Fun day, brutal drive. I guess 50 fish days can still be had in the Arkansas River Canyon, just not on the Ark itself, at least not by me.
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