Colorado in the summer. Snowing four inches one morning, 75 at noon, chilly rain at night…Yeah, that’s predictable. However, one constant does remain – there are always fish to be caught. On this early June day, I got off of work a couple of hours early and decided to hit Deckers and see if my local honey holes would be holding any big rainbows or browns.
It was the end of a week cold spell, and the last two days had been warm and in the sixties, but not abnormally hot. However, in waters that are highly pressured by fisherman year round, there are two rules to go by when fishing the summer time with no specific hatch going on:
1. The smaller, the better.
2. Deep pools are home.
With the sun up, and no hatch going on, I tied on a size 20 flashback pheasant tail along with a mercury midge, and deep nymphed two pools (to be unnamed). The end result: three great bows, and countless suckers. The rainbows were keying in on the midge, and it became difficult in the afternoon to get a drift into the rainbows without hooking a sucker. But for three hours on the water, I’ll take it any day of the week.
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