I finally talked Rob into taking me to Cheeseman Canyon, a place I had heard so much about, but had never gotten to fish. It took about 25 minutes to hike in through the snow and we came out right above the Wigwam club. I expected to see fish, but we had to walk a couple of hundred yards upstream before we finally found a pool holding some fish. The fishing was surprising tough and we had to work hard to get into fish. There were some decent rainbows around, in the 20 inch range, and if we constantly changed flies we found we could get them to bite. We each caught a couple of nice fish in the first pool and continued working upriver, catching a fish or two out of every pool. We worked upriver, maybe a half mile, before deciding that the majority of the fish had been down near the first pool we fished. We headed back downriver and caught a few more nice rainbows and one nice brown before calling it a day. We did stop downriver below the Tee Pee private water where we each landed a couple of rainbows. I spotted one real nice rainbow in the 22 inch range, but it spooked up above the fence over the river after a couple of casts. The water was relatively low, I would guess between 50-75 cfs. The fish took anything smaller than a size 20, with black beauties, miracle nymphs, and red midges working best.

February, 2007