We an extra day or two on our trip, so we decided to make a stop on the "Dream Stream" and then check out Eleven Mile Canyon on our way back home. We didn't have high expectations, as the water levels had been fluctuating a lot lately and we heard the water temperature was high. We decided to fish the middle section of the river near the barns and work our way upstream. It wasn't long before I hooked into a monster 4 inch brown. These little guys were everywhere and we quickly deemed it the "brown trout hatch." The fish must have been gorging themselves on these little browns, as they had no interest in the midges we were throwing at them. We continued up river and I was surprised when I came to the top of one of the bend pools, as there was a pod of three rainbows in the 20-22 inch range. As I was planning my attack, a big brown popped out of a bed of weeds and grabbed one of the little browns swimming by. I tried for a while to entice the brown, but with no luck and didn't manage to land any of the rainbows. We worked our way upriver and we again surprised to find a lot of fish in the 20-26 inch range. I was dragging a wooly bugger next to me when a big 22 inch cutthroat came and grabbed it and swam off. I set the hook, but only managed to pull it right out of its mouth. I hooked another female brown close to 28 inches on the wooly bugger and again pulled the hooks out. While frustrating, it was still exciting to see so many big fish in this river. I switched to a rabbit zonker when we reached the upper section and we worked our way back downstream. After missing 3 more fish, I finally landed an 18 inch rainbow. We missed a couple more fish each and I hooked a monster rainbow right as it was getting dark, but had it break off. We returned early the next day, determined to land one of these hawgs. Jerry landed a nice 14 inch brown and missed a couple more are we worked the top and middle sections. We returned to the pool where I had seen the rainbows and nice brown the previous day. We took turns fishing the rainbows and again the big brown popped up out of the weeds. I threw the rabbit zonker back in where it had been and felt it stop. At first I thought I had snagged up on the weeds, but then I saw a tail come out. The fish continued to try to bury itself in the weeds, but I managed to pull it out and get it turned into the net. It was a pretty 22 inch male brown with a crazy pattern of spots. We tried fishing the trico hatch later that morning, but they didn't want anything to do with what we were throwing. We decided to head down into the canyon and were pleasantly surprised, as it was one the prettiest places I have ever fished. And...There were rainbows everywhere! We landed a couple fish each on San Juans, midges, and pheasant tails. It was a blast to fish such a cool place and catch a lot of fish.