Colorado River Still Picking Up

Fished the Colorado River with fellow guide, Travis Lyons and Fly Raft Works owner, Josh Lively (http://www.flyraftworks.com/) on Sunday. We started at Two Rivers Park in Glenwood Springs after hitting up the 19th Street Diner for breakfast where the weather was warm and in the 30's, even at eleven o'clock in the morning. We began on river right where I quickly hooked a decent rainbow on a #18 Buckskin. After another half hour of not catching anything Travis and I followed Josh to river left where we watched him yard about 4-5 trout on his "top-secret" egg pattern. His largest fish, a solid 16" inch bow, put a large smile on his face. Not long thereafter we hopped back in the car and took off to go fish the Sewage Treatment Plant in West Glenwood. We lasted there for another 20-30 minutes and didn't so much as even touch a fish. Back in the car, after a quick pitstop at Dairy Queen as we pressed further down-valley to the Canyon Creek exit. We stayed for 15minutes as the river simply didn't fish in those few bread-and-butter spots. We eventually stopped and slid down the hill to fish the upstream side of the New Castle Bridge. After switching up flies to a tiny #20 Freestone Emerger I finally hooked two or three rainbows. The last area we hit up was near the town of Silt. After a long walk to go fish "our" prime run we noticed another angler already fishing there. That caught the three of us off guard as we hadn't seen another angler on the water all day long. Oh well. We blanked in that spot too, though I feel confident that we would've wrecked a few fish in that area had no one been there. We caught fish on the Colorado but it definately paled in comparison to the Roaring Fork and the Frying Pan. It won't be long until blanketing hatches of midges put those big, strong Collie fish back on the feed. As many of you know, this is my favorite hatch on the Colorado and I'll definately be keeping you up to speed on how it transpires. Stay tuned. -Kirk-