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Welcome back fishing friends!
A Broncos win and another day of fly-fishing on the South Platte River! If you ask ME, Not a bad way to spend a Sunday in Colorado! Getting into the river conditions first, not much new to report. Flows remain in the upper 60’s(cfs), clarity is good, but there is a considerable amount of moss present in most areas of the river around Decker’s/Trumbull. Continuing with the theme of warm and dry, the bugs are hatching left and right, the fish are sipping from mid-morning until dusk, and the underneath activity is getting pretty hot during the mid-afternoon. For me, the last two days have been a solid mix of nymphing and throwing dries! The Blue Winged Olive 
and the Parachute Adams have certainly been the two bugs of late that have been working for me. However, today was a little bit trickier, as the fish were a bit selective, and I did better today with a double-dry/emerger set-up. Watching the pattern of sipping fish along a bubble line this morning around 11, I decided I would throw the single Parachute Adams, in hope of taking a fish early with my newest offering to the insect buffet! As the case can be more times than not, and this is why you should always be anticipating a strike, when my new arrival entered the feeding zone, I was on to a fish in a flash! A nice sized brown took the size#24 Parachute Adams, gave a valiant effort to release himself from my impostor, but after a few runs upstream and back down, followed with a with a leap or two, I was ultimately able to gain control of the fish by turning it’s head sideways and upwards, then putting it into the net! THAT WAS IT! FOR ANOTHER HOUR! It was like my Parachute Adam
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had some sort of “fish away” applied to it, because I could not catch another fish! I took a little break, played with Bailey and noticed that the rise wasn’t really a rise, but just more of a soft sipping of the surface. Yes, occasionally a fish would really break the surface and create a stir, but for the most part it’s just casual surface feeding. I decided that I would put on a second fly, which was a grey, Sparkle-Wing RS-2, in hope that this would perhaps float just a little bit below the surface, just in the feeding column of the fish. This really seemed to work well, as I caught three nice sized rainbows, and only about 5 minutes between fish! Today’s picture gallery will show you one of the bigger rainbows I caught today. Looking at tomorrow, we’re going to have another big day of sipping fish! I wouldn’t be surprised if tomorrow doesn’t turn into a real feeding frenzy with another bug-filled day on tap. Just a feeling, but these weird weather days have proven to be great fishing days in the past. Monday is also a great day to have your pick of spots along the river. As I’ve been saying for over a week now, don’t forget to spend some time away from the usual spots around the Decker’s Bridge and Y-Camp Road. Get on downstream and explore the great water and solitude that awaits! That’s all I’ve got for today my friends. I’ll be back tomorrow with another update and hopefully some fish tales to tell! Have a great Monday folks! These bugs are just a few example of what’s been working for me!
Chris
