Awesome! What a cool experience. Sorry fishing wasn't as good.

 

Thanks for the great pictures and report.

It's been years since I fished there and the thing I most remember was how slippery the rocks are. The rocks were liked greased bowling balls. 😁
It's too bad the water was off colored or I'm sure you would have done better. We spent two days and dropped in on two different trails. The canyon is so beautiful that I missed several fish because I was too busy gawking around.

 

Thanks for the report! Man, that looks fun. And some quality fish to hand as well.

You'll remember that trip with fondness for a loooong time.

 

I haven't fished that water in quite a while. We used to just walk up from the access road on the west side and wade as far as we could. It was usually hot enough that we didn't even bother with waders, just shorts and tennis shoes. Was some great fishing, one year we actually fried a fish on a rock it was so hot.

A friend snagged a sucker in the tail once, we thought that he had the biggest brown that was alive. That fish would do 50 yard runs with line just screaming off of his reel. After about a hour he got it in to where we could see it, talk about disappointment, but it was a lot of fun while we thought that it was a brown.