Today I hit the Big Thompson with fellow tenkara angler Jim Lionberger. I haven’t fished the Big Thompson in the canyon for a few years so it was nice to make it back. Even better was that Jim has a friend who owns some land right on the river so we ha a beautiful stretch of water all to ourselves. The fish were rising and the action was great despite the cold. The overcast made conditions perfect for a good olive hatch and I caught most of my fish on dry flies. Here are a few pictures…
The fish were brightly colored and very healthy looking. These fish obviously eat well!
The Japanese Hammer with a gray thread body produced well in some of the larger pools but I also caught fish on #20 comparaduns.
When the fish weren’t rising, the good old Utah Killer Bug produced (as always).
It was a great day on the Big Thompson and it reminds me that I need to fish the canyon more often!
Sounds like the perfect little spot right there! Those are deffinitely some great looking trout
beautiful fish. The dry fly pictured looks similar to an adams which is one of the flies I use often.
nice looking rainbow
I just tied up a gob of utah killers bugs using your design Jason, and Im on a mission to try them out this weekend. from the sounds of it, it sounds like the utah killer bug could be a lot of peoples “one” fly if they wanted it to be.
Love those pics!!!!