Man was it hot out on Sunday! Muggy as heck too. Well sh*t you could even call it sticky, and I liked it...
I woke up at a reasonable time on Sunday morning and hit the road. It was an amazingly lovely sort of dank all morning. There was no wind to speak of while gassing up in the Pass, smallish stone shucks hung still wet near the high water mark on bridge pilings, and the sun was so hot that just breathing was making me sweat. The sun had been working its magic, things were alive and well after the monsoon. Conditions being what they were and given that it had been a couple of weeks since I had visited the pass, I decided to go on a little adventure.
The best part of going on adventures is that the outcome isn't always guaranteed. I decided to go have a look a the Oldman tail water. I had an inclination that there was a chance it was in shape, it wasn't.... The water looked dead, the swallows were barely active, I couldn't find the bugs I was looking for, it didn't have that vibe of good fishing. So I reeled in and hustled to my truck, while on the way I paused and made a mental note that things are priming up on this little tail water and it won't be long before it gets silly.
I left the Oldman and headed to the Crow, I had decided to revisit some water I hadn't seen in a while. Coniditions were maybe on the tougher side, the sun was real high and real hot, but the water was running high and coldish so thing might be ok, right? I started in a deep riffle with a blue green run cutting a 45 degree swath downstream and to the right. I flung my dry bug around, poking and prodding looking for that greedy take, and it didn't take long for me to miss a fish. I continued working up and continued to miss fish, once there were no more fish for me to miss, I sat on the bank and watched an Osprey circle over my dog.
So after a day of wandering around the river looking at wild flowers, listening to the song birds, and watching my dog ward off various birds of prey, I came to a few conclusions;
1. The really big bug movement is losing steam, fish are liking the medium stuff right now.
2. Fishing early and late is probably dope as.
3. There are Caddis and Mahoganies present.
4. My dog is a ninja.
So what of the Elk you ask!!! Well, I know that people are here and fishing it. I know that a friend of mine was out there smashing large Bullies, I know that I saw small fish rising at dusk last night, but I also saw me a shark eat an octopus once...
Photo courtesy of The Messiah aka JD
Keep it tight out there,
Spence
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