o in the true spirit of an avid angler, I went fishing! In case folks haven’t noticed, there is a little bit a H20 flowing out of the upper hooch watershed. The Bend is looking as good as one can get with the water levels being where they are right now. 
Won’t hear ANYBODY complaining about that even if it has made wading a bit more…..what’s the word I’m looking for……..sporty! No Guts; No Glory!
So, for the 22,578th time I made the turn off of ALT75 onto Popular Stump Rd and made the 2.8mi drive into the WMA. I made my way past all the eye candy water up to the Check in Station to find a parking lot totally empty. Donned the gear and headed up the trail. I actually dropped in right behind the Check-in-Station just to see if anything was hanging around that low. And sure enough after a few drifts I had brightly colored trout tugging on my line. I didn’t get to fish as hard as I usually do and skipped around a lot, but hooked a couple dozen trout and landed about 2/3rds of them. 
Had a nice fish absolutely explode on my strike indicator that really surprised me. There is a good number of fish up there. Not as easily fooled by the standard San Juan Worm and Egg Pattern rigs I started off with as I had figured, but with some tweaking I landed with a three nymph rig that caught fish pretty steadily until noon when I had to leave.
Lots of water, it has been a while since I’ve crossed in waist deep water up there. Hope it holds on through the summer!
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