I braved the drive and hike and heat to hit Bill's Fork in western Grand Co today. The ~150cfs flows here are finally about perfect IMO. It was a hot and buggy but decent outing. Though, CO #9 to Kremmling is being chip-sealed and was one lane from Green Mtn Rez damn exit to Spring Ck exit ... about 35 cars and 20min delay each way. I arrived at the hike in parking and it was pretty crowded with six cars at 9am. I wasn't deterred and moved quickly to the confluence with the Colorado below all other parties. The hike in past ranch ruins is 20 min but worth it. Nothing really happened till about 10:15am after passing two of the teams. I caught ~2 fish per hour over the 5.5 hrs on the river and late AM was the best bug sign ~ amber, BWO and some larger (green drake?) mayflies started hatching and my BHFBPT was working as was the trailer RS2 ~ caddis and worm did jack. I was totally subsurface all day as I saw no rising on wave-riding bugs of which to speak. I am basically out of mayflies due to the biff on the Eagle a couple days ago so was drawing from my vest patches. I caught lots of 13"-16" German browns on BH mayflies. I lost my PT and switched to a BH Black Ice I found and it fooled the largest fish, an 18" cutbow caught after moving past most of the teams seemingly. I'm a hunter, not a farmer. Lots of sweat; lots of deet... and while I danced, I stayed on my feet with the Rodfather Diamond Blaze 4wt shooting great. I made a full pass of this 1.5mi tailwater and was pretty pooped by 2:30pm and climbed back out to head to Summit. Unfortunately my dining at Last Chance in Keystone would've placed me in a 3 mile queue to I70 with a car on fire in the tunnel ~ but I knew the Dillon Valley cutoff and saved a lot of time on the return to the Nest.... from the church to the Shell station baby.
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