If You Enjoy A challenge, Come, The Fish Are Huge.

 

All I had to do was say I hadn't seen any wildlife and presto, a doe walked her wobbly legged fawn  across Lordville Roar in front of me, a fox stuck his head out of the grass along the dirt road downstream from monument, and an eagle sat on a rock eating a fish just upstream of where I was fishing. Still no bears.

Picked a near 90 degree day to go looking for Cornutas, (has anyone seen any?), never saw a bug hatch from ten this morning until I reeled it in at 12:15. Hooked one rainbow that came unstuck on the first jump, and got a refusal an hour later. Never had a rising fish to throw at. 

Came back to the fishing camp, had lunch, watered the tomatoes, ordered a charge cord for my phone, (the old one no longer charges), a charge cord for my PC, (the one I ordered last week doesn't fit), tied a few sulfurs, steamed my spinners, and before I knew it it was 5:30 so I headed out again.

The fishing - Drove up to Deposit and found, (by this year's standards), a good sulfur hatch with a few fish up. Donned the gear and for about an hour was able to get fish to come to my fly, (the sulfur dun again), landed four, got some refusals and some ignores. It was challenging, productive, and fun, but just when it was supposed to get really good, everything stopped. Got in the car and drove back downstream to the scene of last nights delight. There were four wade fishermen where I fished alone last night. Went downstream into faster water, hooked some good fish, lost half of them, and arrived back at the car at 9:18, the latest quit time so far this year.

How things are -The heat and sun tomorrow will not help matters and if we get the predicted rain later in the week, it'll be boats only again. There are sulfurs hatching on the WB, the percentage of big fish is off the charts. By this time most of the fish I catch usually have multiple hook marks. This year almost all of the fish I've been catching have "clean mouths". Water levels are dropping, there will be wading opportunities tomorrow, after that, who knows. 

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