Okay now I am not too proud to nymph with a San Juan Worm. In fact my friends are not either, and even though the Worm was not the hot fly we did find a couple fish that LOVED the worm. Jeff Lyon and I made tracks to a now floatable section of XY river yesterday morning with high expectations. We brough streamers, big nymphs and lots of 2x & 3x.


Now I leave the name of this river undisclosed for the protection of my own hide and others. I am sure there are a couple of my 20 viewers (if I am lucky) that know this strech of water but lets keep those who do not guessing.The put in is alway a bit nerve racking but we learned a better way to lower the boat down the 90-100 foot bank.


The first half of the float was streamer action, well no action but a lot of casting. We saw a nice pool that looked fishy so we broke out the Nymph Stick and stuck a few to boost our confidence.


The shute was a little loud and fast….I wasn’t nervous…….Really I wasn’t.


OMG it ate the Worm!!!
We pushed on continuing with the streamers. Had a few looks but it just wasn’t happening. Not For us anyway. Back to the nymph stick we went. Lyon found a nicely colored Brown in a hidden bucket under at Pine Tree.

Out of the Canyon and into some Very Very Nymph friendly water we began to do some damage. Serious damge. We had a 20 incher as the trailing fly behind our bright red worm. The 20 incher was hot.

Lyon is a novice rower so I was on the sticks most of the day sweating out the beer that was forced into my system the night before. Was it forced? Jeff had a field day with these fish. I think he felt kinda dirty after the float.





I couldn’t take it any longer I had to get on the rod and out of the Rowers Seat. Lyon was glad to switch with me and I was able to get a few to the Net.

RAD day on the river looking forward to another today. Headed North to the Upper Colorado for the Salmon Fly Hatch….. suckers.