Fishing With Greg ~ OMG 22Oct23 & 24Oct23

Greg said "let's plan on fishing in the spring," and we left it there... I decided "heck no" and called him for a fish day out his way on the Ark for Sunday. We fished Rincon on a nice day. Black mayfly emerger was the best bug for me though the Perdigon scored too. The fishing was an odd on-and-off day but we caught some and then headed to Salida for some food and beers at the new-to-me Moonlight brewery. Nice. Good to see GL again and we laid plans for another fall outing.

I convinced GL to come up to Summit for a trip to the Williams Fork ~ ok it didn't take too much convincing as he'd not been to this fine tailwater. I was hoping conditions had improved since my last trip there a couple weeks ago - maybe even some big browns migrating up from the Colorado to spawn. The weather was gorgeous though cool to start ~ we were hiking in, so not felt really. Flows too were a perfect 123cfs and steady for 8 days and the water was fairly clear. We caught a dozen or so fish each, most in the 16"-17" range. Greg caught the only rainbow even though I was tossing an egg in hopes of enticing a larger leftover 'bow chasing spawning browns. But we didn't see many redds or spawning action actually. All the bugs seemed to work ok ~ GL's fav was a hot spot BHPT and I succeeded with a black ice Perdigon, several kinds of mayflies and a couple of dark midges. The fish we caught were in great shape. It was a good day. We closed out with tunes on the NestMT while enjoying take out dinner and some ORB brew. A good day on Bill's with our 4 weights, and a decent intro to this water for Greg... thanks for coming up!