The flows on the Taylor River were up, but so were the big fish, up in the no fishing section of the river near the dam. The first evening I landed a couple of browns right before dark, the largest being close to 18 inches. They took miracle nymphs and black beauties in faster water behind boulders. We fished into the night landing close to fifteen browns each. Most of the fish were between 2 and 5 pounds and we fished to them without indicators. Allof the fish caught at night took mysis drifted near the bottom of the large pool downstream from the bridge. The next day I was excited to find a bright red rainbow feeding upstream from the bridge. The fish was close to 4 pounds and after a couple of casts to it, there was a huge swirl about 5 feet up from the fish. A much larger rainbow had appeared out of nowhere and was in sitting just a little ways further upstream. On my third cast, the huge rainbow took the fly and tore upstream. I proceeded to chase the fish downstream under the bridge and unwrapped the fish from a boulder before getting the fish turned into the net. It was one of my biggest rainbows ever, close to 7 pounds. All of the fish were caught using 6X tippet and the best flies were the barr emerger, miracle nymph, black beauty, and the mysis shrimp. The temperature was in the sixties during the day and in the high twenties at night. Fishing was best during early morning and in the evening.