Clear Creek - May 25, 2020

Clear Creek is probably the only fishable - non-tail water - river.  It was high, and slightly tea colored - but completely fishable.  I had a few hours to burn and fished it in Idaho Springs - lots of small fish, maybe one brown broke the 12 inch mark.  Another brown hit the size 10 zebra midge and the fish was about 2 inches long - smallest fish I have had hit and stay on a fly.

Water was cold, but the fish were starving - and willing to slam a few midges.  I love these new barbless jig hooks - super easy to remove from a fish without hurting them (and your fingers).  I may have lost a fish or two more than I normally would have (especially the little browns who thrash around so much) - but no big deal.

I love catching brown trout - the small ones came in all different colors and variants - different belly colors, cheek colors, spots.  Always cool fish.

I fished the same spot I did back in October - hoping to catch that brookie again.  I did not - but I did have him on and I could see his orange and white tipped fins in the slow water.  Cool that CC has brookies in it.