Time: 8:30AM – 1:00PM

Location: Fremont – Chafee County Line

Arkansas River – 08/07/2005 Photo Album

We got up early and had breakfast at the Country Bounty. We first stopped near where we ended the previous evening, but farther upstream in some pocket water. I tried various attractors; a yellow Madam X, a lime green trude, a parahopper with a copper john dropper; but I experienced limited success. I landed two small trout. We tired of this lack of action and decided to head back to the Texas Creek area.

We fished the same stretch below the Texas Creek bridge that we covered the previous day. I caught a nice brown where I began on a beadhead hares ear, and then another on a yellow Letort hopper. After this short lived success, however, I began absorbing refusals. I tried a gray Madam X and green trude, but none of these options delivered. Next I tied on an elk hair caddis, and I began connecting with fish. By the time I reached the top of the island, I landed another 12 fish; all browns on the elk hair caddis.

View Upstream from Texas Creek

I worked my way up the river along the right bank toward the bridge. I picked up a small brown in a deep eddy along the side, and then I approached Dave Gaboury, who was working the bank in the pool downstream from the Texas Creek bridge. He had on a Royal Wulff with a flashback pheasant tail. I watched as he cast a foot away from the bank. On three successive casts a brown rose and inhaled the royal wulff. I was 10 feet out from the bank, so I switched to a Letort hopper trailing a copper john. I landed a nice rainbow that took the copper john along the current seam and then a smaller brown near the shadow of the bridge.

Fish Landed: 17