Fall Trip to the East Portal

Had to squeeze in one more trip to the East Portal in before winter hit and we just made it. I've been to the East Portal a few times in the past couple of years and it's really a fun place to go. I've never seen it crowded and there are a few runs that just produce nice, brick red bows.

Mike was able to make it on this trip after having to canx a trip the previous weekend because of work (get your priorities straight Mike)! We headed up Friday evening and hit Colorado Boy Pizza which is delish. Almost worth the trip itself. We rigged up, watched Low and Clear and were up around 5.

We got down in the canyon just before daylight. I walked over to look at the water and noticed the spillway looked totally different.  The far side of the spillway was really calm and a new central outflow had formed. It looks like the dam was damaged this spring in the high flows. So fishing was a little different from what we are used to but we still caught some nice fish.

White streamers cast right up against the spillway worked best in the morning. Dad was on fire for about 15 minutes. One right after another. Things calmed down though after about an hour and we moved upstream. No one pattern killed it the rest of the day but we picked up a few on egg patterns.

Not the best trip up to the East Portal but it was a fun time as always.