Jim chose the Williams Fk over hiking to Mohawk so we headed up north to Grand County... It's Jim's first time to fish tiny tailwater; flows were a strong 180cfs We weren't the only ones choosing this river... there were lots of cars and lots of fishermen on the river, even down toward the confluence with the Colorado. Unfortunately Jim snagged and lost the tip section of his rod on the final down hike section to the river ~ tried as he did to fish without it he ultimately made the trek back to the car to replace the rod. He was back in a <2 hours and we actually met up about halfway up the river. We saw lots of bug sign including red quills, BWOs and ultimately huge grey drakes. Jim caught some 14"-16" browns on a red copper john (likely during the red quill hatch) and I caught quite a few fish 14"- 18", all of them nice & strong. The small browns from the last several years have grown well. My first fish though was a very big holdover rainbow that unfortunately took the chubby hard, and my whole rig with it. I was pushing use of the leader and it broke at the knot to the 1st tippet ~ after the incidence, I replaced it, and landed the rest. The Rodfathery Cutty 4wt worked great. No more holdovers for the day but plenty of nice browns with 60% on the UV chubby (worked very well during the drake hatch), 20% on the weighted rainbow warrior (reasonable PMD), and 20% on BHFBPT. With Jim hiking back to the car I neglected to get our team selfie and didn't get my selfie either. They would have been cool as Jim wet-wated and I went with Chota hip waders (bad choice as I danced on the slick rocks just wearing my ultralight boots). I did get pics of most of the fish (but won't show them all) and ran out of battery on the GoPro. As usual on the Williams Fk, there were plenty of mosquitos, but I had deet for us.
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