Slow day beat 4 river 3. A relatively slowish first day for the Campbell family from New Mexico staying at Spot X. The day started well with daughter Lindsay catching a nice 2 and a half pound rainbow at the head of the first pool then slowed right down. In the end we hooked 4 good ones and landed two of them with son Ben landing the biggest of the day at around 3 and a half pounds. John and Denease hooked severeal small ones also. Looks like the fish may be turning into spawing mode so the may have to concentrate on the slower parts of pools and higher up in the Tributaries.

It was the campbells first ever fly-fishing experience and in fact Bens first ever fishing experience so 4 good hookups isn’t bad but the guys were getting some good casts out and some good drifts in riffly water so I would have hoped for a few more.

They all showed great ability with the casting but unfortunately my time had to be divided between the 4 and we will still need to do a little more work today before they can completely mangage the lines themselves and catch fish while I sit back and cheer on – thats the normal plan anway!

The Cambells are enjoying staying at Spot X and are looking forward to some clay bird shooting. After the slow day on the river Daugter Lindsay was enjoying a beer on the lawn and a cast with the spinning rod and managed to hook up. Not sure if she landed any after I left but the pool in front seemed to have a lot of good Rainbows in it as well as the normal browns indicating possible spawning mode – run.