As bizarre as it is, today is the first time I've fished this year in April! Yeah, with the West TX outing and camper prep I just didn't go in this the best fishing month of the year around here... I'll try to make up for it. So today I headed out the Ark into Big Horn Sheep Canyon and fished for several hours. I did fine at Pinnacle Rock. It has recovered but the fish are smaller in general yet than "the old days." I dropped in about 9am and fished till ~noon. I caught 15 or so fish with 70% of them rainbows, like the last time I was here last year. Weird in my mind as the Ark freestone is a more notable brown trout fishery. Unfortunately my Hero cam was in backwards and didn't catch the two larger fish: one, my first today, was a 17" brown and the 2nd also early was a 17" rainbow. I missed filming the entire south bank pass. Oh well, after I took the selfie (at the end of the pass) I realized it had been reversed and I fixed it for the second pass... I did south bank first and then reloaded below the state park area and crossed for another go on the north bank. The south was better, or earlier, or less crowded, or shaded, or whatever. After crossing to the north side others in kayaks, and rafts, and some fishermen showed up. Best bug was the black ice perdigon but the RS2 took some too. I saw egg laying caddis but the caddis larvae I tried attracted nothing. Here are a few fish from the south bank pass as well as a nice "fail" pic, and my selfie. I tossed the 5wt 8.5' RF Ghost Bomber and it cut the wind nicely and easily landed everything I hooked.
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