Since I’ve been here the daytime temperatures have been a constant 88 to 92 with the nighttime temperature getting down to 50. Yesterday not long before dark a front came through and it actually rained a little bit. Today it’s in the mid 70s. Tonight it’s supposed to get down to 39. The elevation here is around 5700 feet. Usually there are very few clouds. It gets damn hot fast in that sun. Spoke too soon on the temperature. It’s back in the mid 80s.
Fished for a few hours today. On my hike into the river I overheard a couple of guys saying how terrible the fishing has been. One said “it gets worse everyday”.
Finding fish here isn’t the problem. Properly presenting the correct fly is the challenge. For an hour I tried the usual suspects, size 24 and 26 midges with no luck. I switched to a bigger fly, probably a size 18, green annelid.
Got lucky and found something they wanted to eat. Over roughly an hour and a half I hooked up with four very nice fish. The first hookup looked like one of the monsters. I’m not bragging cause I didn’t land it. Perhaps I had him on for a half minute. I netted the next two fish, both the biggest trout I have ever caught, and I lost the fourth one. I took a photo of the first one I landed and got it back into the water. It swam away.
