The 2017 season in review.
Returned to camp after six days to find the north facing hills a barren gray with isolated spots of color where a lone aspen or oak is making it's last stand. The oak trees on the south facing slopes which were green when I drove home last Friday are now a beautiful combination of burnt orange and burgundy interspersed with the green of the pines. If you enjoy fall foliage it's your last chance 'til next fall to take in nature's art work. After yesterday's fishing it became an easy decision to finish the camp shut down. Yes there were olives and rising fish but the adult browns are busy spawning and the risers were all fingerlings and yearlings. If water conditions improve there may yet be chances to hook some rainbows sipping pseudos in slow water pools but it's time for me to call it a season. For the record it was one of my better years (fourth out of twenty six). I didn't catch as many fish over 17 inches as some years but there were lots of two