Rainbow Falls

It was ON this morning at Rainbow Falls. I haven't fished it in a few weeks and it was nice to see it fishing so well. Ben and I started in the creek as usual. An unweighted natural squirrel and copper body slump dead drifted was just destroying them. I used about 3' of 12lb flouro from the fly line and then 2 feet of 3X flouro from that to the fly. Just dead drift the fly and watch the end of your fly line. It'll stop or dart a little. Set the hook and it's on. For a while we got tugs almost every cast. We had to force ourselves of the creek because we wanted to hit some lakes.

Every lake we hit was fishing well. Cougar, Elk, Spring, Palmer...... A small black slump worked with very short hard strips was unbeatable. I had some takes today that almost took the rod out of my hands. Too much fun! Some of these guys were fresh from the mothership and took some runs that would do justice for fish twice their size.

A conservative estimate is 50 fish between Ben and myself between 7AM and noon. Awesome time! No monsters but at least 3 fish were over 20".

Nice mix of fishing lately. Small streams followed by these bubbas. No GoPro footage this trip. Someone forgot to charge the damn thing last night. Not sure what is on tap for next week but the week after is the Fork and the Pan.... he he he he he he he