Kala On Blodgett Open Space... Kala & I hiked around in Blodgett Open Space yesterday. We had a great outing on a nice day. It was an initial decent jaunt of '26 for Kala "Some Knees." We were pleased to be out and high above COS. The pines and firs are dropping mad amounts of cones/seeds this spring, as they do in drought conditions, "c'mon cones make more tiny trees, it's tough right now."
DC Fishing Cheesman Canyon... I headed out to Cheeseman solo today; it wasn't for lack of offering the CoWWs, it just happens that way. Cheeseman Canyon is a notoriously technical section of the S Platte river; it's the effluent of Cheeseman Rez, so a tailwater. I arrived 9:15am and was the 20th car at the Gill Trailhead leading into the canyon. More followed me so that's something. It's a strong 2.5mi hike in to the best fishing.
I fished lower in the canyon but did jack till ~2.2mi in where I could target feeding fish in spite of the flows increasing to 120cfs recently. Most productive was where DD first took me in this canyon years ago... ok, his guide took us. I caught several fish but the great cutbow got off at my net, shitty form DC ~ prob 18'-20" cutbow who then took off again 60 yds upstream and wrapped around a huge rock to break off. Else, 'bows and a brown of lesser stature on Barr's emerger & Cheeseman emerger (in the PM) and Awesome midge and JuJu midge in the late AM. OK outing but plenty of fish blew me off when hitting them on the nose... I used a #18 oil can Perdigon as weight and I sensed they saw me coming. Too, my hip flexors are blowing up this year ~ tire and get sore "quickly" ~ rue the day of the "bowling injury" and ER visit.
Any day catching fish on this tricky tailwater is a good day but they should'a been bigger in the pics.
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