BIG Rainbows were stacked up right above the trough on the Taylor. There was a riffle with a lip and right below the lip 5-8 rainbows were lined up, all feeding on the bugs tumbling down the river. The usually easily spooked fish didn’t seem to mind me at all and I quickly hooked into a 25-inch fish. It got wrapped around a rock upstream and by the time I got it unraveled, it had broken off. I managed to find another huge fish, this time a nice brown. It only took a couple of casts, but when I finally hooked the fish it came up to the top and rolled, wrapping itself in the line and also hooking itself with the dropper. I took the fish downstream and by the time I got to the bridge a crowd had started to form. I came out from under the bridge to the large pool and when I looked up there were probably 30 people watching me fight the fish. I finally got the brown into the net and was applauded by the crowd. The brown had a huge head and was 27 inches long, but very skinny for a Taylor fish. I landed two more nice rainbows one 20 inches and the other close to 23. I did find one really nice fish up by the cable that was in the 12-15 pound range, but it saw me the same time I saw it and took off upstream. The next day was tough in the catch and release section, with us landing no fish. We fished the lower C & R section and Jerry hooked into a couple of nice rainbows. The lower Taylor had a lot of great holes and pocket water. We caught some small browns and I lost a nice rainbow. That evening we nymphed the lower C & R section again, where I lost 2 rainbows over 20 inches. At night we caught lots of nice browns in the pool below the bridge, with a couple being over 20 inches. I had one huge hook-jaw brown close to 8 pounds on twice, but couldn’t get it in. The best fly this trip was the black beauty, but we also had a lot luck with Pheasant Tails and Mysis with the flows up around 210 cfs.