So, a little adventure to some northern waters. Last Friday night found me pulling into Alcova, WY, around 7pm with enough light to stand in the water for a bit. The flow was still around 725cfs so wading was easy. The Reef proved to be difficult because the flow increase from 500cfs pushed a lot of moss into the entire water column, but fish were still on the grab and when a drift managed to stay clean, the odds were good. A couple nice fish later and I found a campsite and waited for Casey and Aidan to show up from the Keys post tarpon-sacking. Show up they did - at 3:30am. Ouch.
Saturday started off great on the Reef - fish in the boat and splitter skies. As we continued down, however, the amount of moss just became more and more difficult to deal with. A couple more fish and we hammered down to Lusby, loaded the boat up, and punched south to Delaney Buttes near Walden, CO. Camp was established, rigs were switched over, and we were ready for day 2.
Sunday was again clear and calm. Again we started off great with both rainbows and browns taking chronomids and callibaetis. Around 11am we were swarmed by the most epic hatch I have ever seen on those lakes. I couldn't even open my mouth they were so thick in the air - beautiful insects though. Casey came alive with a couple silvery hogs on the west side of the North Lake - one almost spooled him - those fish are strong! All in all a great weekend, and we were all lucky for the UPF 30 sun protection fabric of our Patagonia Sunshade Shirts - would have been toast without them! Enjoy the pics...
Saturday started off great on the Reef - fish in the boat and splitter skies. As we continued down, however, the amount of moss just became more and more difficult to deal with. A couple more fish and we hammered down to Lusby, loaded the boat up, and punched south to Delaney Buttes near Walden, CO. Camp was established, rigs were switched over, and we were ready for day 2.
Sunday was again clear and calm. Again we started off great with both rainbows and browns taking chronomids and callibaetis. Around 11am we were swarmed by the most epic hatch I have ever seen on those lakes. I couldn't even open my mouth they were so thick in the air - beautiful insects though. Casey came alive with a couple silvery hogs on the west side of the North Lake - one almost spooled him - those fish are strong! All in all a great weekend, and we were all lucky for the UPF 30 sun protection fabric of our Patagonia Sunshade Shirts - would have been toast without them! Enjoy the pics...
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Great site! Looking forward to future posts.
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