I had one the most unusal days at Rocky Ford yesterday and felt I had to pass this along.
I arrived at about 10:00 and headed down to the fast water section below the second hatchery. There were about 20 anglers upstream from their so I wasn't overly optimistic. When I arrived to the first good section I discovered that I had it to myself. There were plenty of fish and threw the fly box at them but they had lock jaw. After about two hours I wandered down to the next good hole. There I observed two anglers taking fish on almost every cast. I asked them what they were using and they stated it really didn't matter. These fish were hungry and anything down deep did the trick. They invited me to join them right below them so I hopped into the action. My section wasn't as productive as theirs as it wider and and the fish were spread out more but I proceeded to get into several nice fish including several taken on a size 14 BWO. Getting a RF rainbow on a dry always makes my day so I was pretty happy. The fella's above me continued to absolute pound the heck out these fish for the next several hours. Finally these guys got sore arms and decided it was time to head for home. They invited me up to their spot and showed me where they were casting. No sooner did they disappear then I had my first fish. The action continued fast and furious. I kid you not, any bead head fly would get a strike. I was using an Atomic Worm with great success. After about 30 minutes and probably a dozen fish, I decided to work the tailout of the hole. I switched to a size 2 black leach and cast down stream and stripped upstream. Again, almost every cast was met with a strike or a fish. What was amazing was I could skim the leach right on the surface and fish after fish would attack it. It looked like a shark feeding frenzy out there. The highlight of my day was a plump 26+ or - fish that was just huge. Unlike many of the RF fish that just wallow till you drag them in, it was all I could do to get this fish in. I fought him hard for almost 10 minutes using a 6wt with 1X tippet. I wasn't afraid of breaking him off with that tippet and can say I was really working him hard but he continued to just go where he wanted to. Made my day. Mike
