Noticeably more crowded today and I’m sure tomorrow so I’m just going to hang out today and probably tomorrow. Might tie up a couple of homemade leaders. Don’t need them but I like dicking around with fly stuff.
The San Juan River is a “Tailwater” river. A tailwater river’s water is constantly coming out of the base of a dam. The water is very cold. After an hour or two of wading in the San Juan my feet hurt from the cold but in this environment it doesn’t take long to warm them up. The dam was built to create the lake not to create a world famous trout river. They got lucky with the incredible insect life that thrives in the river created by the dam. The river is stocked but many fish survive to become huge. In the 3 1/2 miles of “Quality Waters” just below the dam it is catch and release. You can only fish with a single debarbed hook. There are between 14,000 and 15,000 fish in each mile of the “Quality Water”.
Very cool.