Well I tied some Pop Tops in olive to try on the S Platte (as I noticed similarly colored midges on my last outing here) and they worked fine today, fooling the several fish I landed. It was a windy & chilly day in the canyon with the S Platte running very low @ ~70cfs and ultra-clear. There were fewer cars heading up, just a dozen @ 11:45am, which was the good news. I could see plenty of decent fish but the bite was not fully "on" today, which was the bad news. Hands & toes got cold but I kept plugging away and caught my best this day, a 17"er, plus some others, all rainbows (more normal) and all on the Pop Top. The rainbow/cutbow finned off redds are obvious but no fish are on them here yet. I used my 9' 5+wt RF Cobalt Cutbow to cut through the wind ~ solid plan. I received my annual pass for this area from RMRC; it now a hang-tag rather than a window sticker, and it's price inflated 33% to $100!
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