
First run encountered from the trail in---shouldn't be any fish here since who knows how many others have fished it this morning...

Third cast on a grasshopper.

Maybe I've hit the mother lode....but no. Only hooked up three times over the next 2 hours with many flashes and attempts.
I moved on downstream and fished near one of the campgrounds. After a while I was able to find a stretch of stream between the various anglers and decided to switch to a streamer. Good choice.

After about 10 minutes of trying some deep pools, I drifted the streamer where the tail of a riffle swept up under a grassy bank. This rainbow hit hard and immediately took to the air. After a half a dozen leaps while hoping that I didn't screw up I was able to land this really beautiful fish. Really shouldn't have tried to hold on for a photo with one hand but I managed.

Of course she was only teasing. I didn't have another strike over the next hour and a half.
Yep, there's a reason to put up with the fickleness of big river.
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