'Nutha Trip To PT @ NC On A Nice Day ~ Kitchen Finishers Had A Day Off So Kala & I Both Did Stuff 14May26

I hit the PT again at NC, but late. I arrived at ~10:30am to warming waters and daytime temps. Little pressure fortunately but little action early unfortunately. Flow were lower at ~70cfs; too low. I ultimately hooked into a decent 19"er mid-day; fooled him with Purple May Reign. Then late in the day @ ~2:30pm, the bigs came in droves to shelves and flats to feast on emerging midges. So fun but I didn't match well enough as hookups were somewhat random on PopTops (an emerger), Juju larva, and Cheesseman Emergers. Two much bigger fish broke off my 5.5 tippet. Grrr... more good 'experience' for the Rodfather Green Machine.

Kala & I hit Il Vicino tonight for fine 'za and totties; we've been aced from pizza Tue for a while now, without a kitchen. We also stopped on the way home to get a wine for tomorrow's 'Wine & Friends' event, so I grabbed a chaser of NZ hops laden hazy IPA from Verboten of Loveland. Worthy.