Just Wandering

From between the lakes to between the hatches, or something like that.  I go searching for more late season trico hatches, but it appears I'm a little late.  So I do a little recon for later this season, or another season.  I drop in on Wyoming a couple times.  I purposely avoid the MO, though I passed dangerously close.  I wouldn't want to put an end to the season too soon, and there's nowhere to go after the best in the West.  The Fork remains turbid. A quick trip home to check in and make sure I still have one, take care of some appointments, and get a little recharge.  I'll be on Silver Creek by the weekend.  That's pretty close to an automatic winner. 

Walked 1.6 miles RT in search of . . . 

Water up due to irrigation gates closed?

The headwaters of sort.  Cloudy, but nothing doing.

Big water at the head of the gorge, even at lowest flows.

Rumors of epic trico clouds, but I found none.

Beautiful, quiet, shaded, free campsite 

Beautiful big riffles just below town.

Smaller above town, still no bugs

Quickly sampled this little creek before a brake line exploded on my pickup. I'll be back though. (Drove 60 miles to Butte with no hydraulics! Piece o' cake, I only had to stop once.)

This looked good, flowing at 380, not too many weeds, "Beaverhead clear." I saw about six BWOs float by in a few hours.  Just isn't happening yet.  Couldn't even Leech one up.