Always happy to get back up to Potter County to fish and enjoy the mountains. It had been a while since my last time up to the Burned Out Camp.
I was up for the weekend and only got a little time in on the water Friday night. I spent a little too much time taking pictures and looking for some nearby elk. The evening was overcast with some nearby storms.
Saturday morning I got a late start by the pipeline. Bright sunny morning with air temps in the lower 60's. Overall not a lot of rain recently and the water was a little low running at about 140 CFS. The insects and fish weren’t very active.
The evening turned out to be a lot more fun. Water temps were pushing close to 70. The air was in the mid 70's with continued clear skies.
Fish were sporadically rising and was really hard to figure what the insects were doing. Seemed like a little bit of everything coming off and on the water: sulphur, BWO, spinners, caddis and more. I ended changing my flies quite a bit and would catch a couple on whatever I put on. Caddis turned out to be the most productive and closed the evening with rusty spinner. Not a real big spinner fall.
After being attacked in the water by a porcupine I had to stop at the Wharton to make sure I was okay. Ventured on later that night and tried to get a picture of the Milky Way just off in the SE horizon. Not easily seen by the naked eye. Hard to capture with the camera, but got a little of it.
I was up for the weekend and only got a little time in on the water Friday night. I spent a little too much time taking pictures and looking for some nearby elk. The evening was overcast with some nearby storms.
Saturday morning I got a late start by the pipeline. Bright sunny morning with air temps in the lower 60's. Overall not a lot of rain recently and the water was a little low running at about 140 CFS. The insects and fish weren’t very active.
The evening turned out to be a lot more fun. Water temps were pushing close to 70. The air was in the mid 70's with continued clear skies.
Fish were sporadically rising and was really hard to figure what the insects were doing. Seemed like a little bit of everything coming off and on the water: sulphur, BWO, spinners, caddis and more. I ended changing my flies quite a bit and would catch a couple on whatever I put on. Caddis turned out to be the most productive and closed the evening with rusty spinner. Not a real big spinner fall.
After being attacked in the water by a porcupine I had to stop at the Wharton to make sure I was okay. Ventured on later that night and tried to get a picture of the Milky Way just off in the SE horizon. Not easily seen by the naked eye. Hard to capture with the camera, but got a little of it.
