Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Browns, 'Bows, and Breakage On My 1st Tunnels Pass 14Mat24

I set out late for Summit going the back way... I'm hoping the cold May weather has delayed the snow melt enough to give me pre-melt flows on the mountain streams for some fishing. On the way I stopped on the S Platte in 11 Mile canyon; flows are up a smidge to ~125cfs but perfect and the day was decent mid 40°s. I arrived a smidge late at 11:15am but right in the midst of a modest BWO hatch... emergers like RS2 and Distiny's Child worked well for a bit. I also hit the tunnels section for the 1st time this year - only two cars in the area. I caught a number of bows and browns like these but none big (I know many of the fish are smaller on this section a couple miles down from the top). The one which broke the Rodfather Diamond Blaze during landing wasn't big either... to be clear, I had ticked it with a tungsten bead on a cast not long before... I thought nothing of it really but I might've etched the tip. It'd only been 2hrs or less but I hiked back out and packed it in for Summit. I'll write the distributor but I don't know if tolerances are tight enough for them to just send a tip.


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