Ham's Fork: More Monster Rainbows

After lunch we started to work our way upstream. 

I caught a smaller rainbow and checked its throat contents to see what it was really eating - mostly small mayfly nymphs. 

The closest imitation would be a pheasant tail nymph so Nick and I tried bead head pheasant tail nymphs or something similar the rest of the day. 

This worked quite well because we continued to catch quite a few large trout, several around the 20 inch mark, as we worked our way upstream. 

These fish seemed to like the well oxygenated riffle sections and we caught quite a few in the shallow riffles right before a drop off to deeper water. 

By 7:30 we thought we had better head off to camp and get dinner started.  Where was the gate? 

We walked along the fence to try to find one of the gates that would lead us back to the car.  The fence all looked the same and there wasn’t a gate anywhere.  We were sure there was an opening we walked through to get to the river. 

We finally found a place we could crawl through but it certainly wasn’t the gate we originally went through.  Finally we found the path that would lead us back.  We followed it back to the river and took note of the location to make sure that next time we could recognize were it was.