3 Wt Fun During 11 Mile Canyon Outing 10May23

I headed out to Lk George and turned up 11 Mile Canyon for a fly fishing outing on the S Platte. It is a gorgeous spot and it was in the mid 50°s with still thin ~80cfs flows today; there were 45 cars parked in the canyon (several were climbers though) as I departed at 1pm, to beat any pending precip. I hit the water at 9:45 above the last bridge and used midge rigs all morning, as I didn't see mayflies, though my top weight bug was a mayfly imitation. Despite the flows and crowds, I landed lots of fish, but nothing over 18"; one brown trout and the rest were 'bows. It was a midge morning with Blue Oyster Cult and olive Pop Top taking the bulk of the fish ~ mid-day as I spied a mayfly, the grey RS2 and Destiny's Child did score some fish. The Rodfather RFT3 was excellent ~ so light and fast and shorter than most; it could do no wrong in these waters and was deadly accurate to 40ft... love it. I could see the fish easily still; flows need to be kicked up. Given the crowds I could not fish the excellent highest spot on this tailwater - other good spots too were over-occupied. Anyway, grrr, just a regular Wednesday.