Roaring Fk Fail 14Jul24 & Fix 19Jul24 And Recon Gore Ck 17Jul24

I pulled into the Gateway RV Park in Carbondale on Sun without issue. I filled the BC20X with their water and turned on the pump; I finally noticed that the inside faucet had failed and was leaking all over everything in that cabinet... grrr. After turning off the pump and cleaning everything up I set out to fix the faucet. Unfortunately it's a cheapy and could not be repaired effectively in the field, and really needed to be replaced. I decided to blow the whole thing off and drag the camper back to the Nest to buy, receive, and make repairs. No sticking the Pan pigs on this outing. Camping without water was not gonna be good. The RV park was fine but right on CO 83, so loud. It was almost right on the Roaring Fk too though. Still prefer higher near Aspen at Difficult CG when in this river drainage.

I was bummed and basically am waiting for an upgraded replacement faucet to arrive. That did allow me to binge Stitchers, a decent sci-fi show.

The new faucet did not arrive today via FedEx as expected. I got a folding faucet as needed but went all metal vs the plastic original one. Hopefully tomorrow for receipt and install. Next week is Conejos camping & fishing so I need it fixed.

FedEx delivered faucet the next day and I spent Fri morning installing and testing. Is it bad I had parts leftover? It's all good - in plenty of time for Mogote CG.

Gore Ck is still running pretty high at 127cfs today. I jumped Vail Pass to Eagle Co to recon Gore Ck for possibly fishing it later with Bob. Hmmm... I did catch fish in each of my three standard sections there: the mouth, the west Vail, and the dawg park but the fish weren't big. The main issue is that the creek is still running fast, making wading a bit dicey. I didn't see other fishermen. I caught mostly 12" Scottish browns but did get one 14" rainbow and one German brown. I rigged with a summer Chubby up top, green wired up ice caddis and black DCEZWD40. Subsurface did most of the work with the caddis the main bug though all flies scored. The fish are not spread across the creek yet ~ most of my catches were closer to the edges, with the flows still high & fast. I wielded the Rodfather Brookie 9ft 3wt which was sporting a new trimmed down fighting butt I recently made; it's cool but the length makes it just a bit heavier in the hand than my other 3wts. The RFT3 is awaiting a new warranty section rebuild.