The story this year was WIND - lots of it! It never really let up, but the 21 of us attending, fished anyway. And wow did we catch fish!

The hot location was at the far end of the dam right in the corner. The hot fly was the sparkle caddis pupa once again, though guys caught fish on other flies too. The average size Apache Trout brought to net was right at 15", and the largest fish I heard about was a 20" behemoth. Some guys reported catching Brown Trout here and there.

I caught a few fish on a damsel nymph and we did see a few adult damselflies out and about. Another popular fly was the White Crystal Bugger. I have no idea why this fly works - maybe a bait fish that has lost its coloration???

Everything was fished subsurface and fairly deep. There seemed to be some near surface feeding activity but they kept eating our flies, so nobody switched to an emerger pattern to check it out.

All in all, it was a successful weekend and everyone agreed that they had a great time despite the wind. Maybe next year the fish will be even bigger and there will be less wind.