Mike : Sounds like you hit great day when evrything just snap in place. Great up date! Les ----- Original Message ----- From: rderedfield Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 3:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Unusual day at Rocky Ford Sure you were at Rocky Ford . . . ?
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 9:08 AM
Subject: Unusual day at Rocky Ford
> 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
>
>
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