For the past three days I've been driving up to Rocky Mountain National Park in the afternoon to catch a fabulous PMD hatch. Yesterday I spotted a nice brown working over a moss bed across the stream from me. I got him to look at my fly a couple of times, but each time he turned away at the last second. I let him rest for awhile, changed PMD patterns and he took the fly on the first pass; nice 12 inch brown in skinny water.
Today I was back and the same fish was in the same spot. Same thing; refused the first offering, which was the fly he took the day before. Rested him, changed to a no hackle PMD, and bang, got him on the first pass.
So, the question is how often do you manage to catch the same fish? I know I've done it in the past, or at least thought it was the same fish, but this time because of a unique mark on the dorsal fin, I knew it was the same fish.


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Dan S
The poster formerly known as Outrider