10-8-2012 Boulder Creek...but not the same

It is another Boulder Creek report, but it's not quite the same (beetle, beetle, beetle trip) report as it has been. Although, I don't know why you would get tired of those reports. See: "Tie beetle on, fish all day, catch fish all day" report. Really! You know what I say; "If ain't broke, don't tie on a different fly."

Well, anyways. Why is it a different report? Because of the...snow. That's right. We got our first snow fall in the Denver metro area this year. It wasn't much obviously, but the cold front that stuck around for three days was enough to drop the river temperatures for sure. The maximum surface temperature reading I got all day was a chilly 40 degrees. It was a nice day outside, just a cold one in the river.

Having known that the temps were lower I tried to stay a little lower in the canyon and concentrate on finding the sunny spots. I figured after three days of that cold nonsense, sun would be just what the trout doctor ordered. I was right. They were real lethargic all day in the shade until about 3:00 or so.

 To start off, I got to fishing about a mile above the mouth of the canyon. I started around 10:30 and found a real nice sunny stretch. I hadn't fished since my last creek trip and still had that good old beetle tied on. But stay tuned, it's not what you think. The beetle did work, pretty efficiently actually but only sporadically through the day. In the lower section, it fished great with that same Callibaetis  RS-2.  But by 11:30 or so, it started really slowing down. I did manage to catch about 12 or so in that first hour or so.

So around 12:00 or so I drove upstream towards the falls switched up to a beetle with a green and black wire beadhead prince nymph. That seems to have been the trick in this section lately and it worked today as well; but again slowed after a few hours.

So then I drove back down to my original spot and decided that I would start nymphing entirely. I tied on a purple poison tung below the same prince nymph and man let me tell you, that was what they wanted. They were all over this thing. I recently tied some of these up after seeing them before but never really bought or tried one. I'm not sure that what I tied is the exact same but it worked none the less. I will post a pic later.

After a few hours, I called it quits. I caught probably upwards of 30 trout all day and had quite a fun time. A complete day for sure.

Tight Lines!