Clear Creek Near Denver

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I was in Denver for all the wrong reasons (daughter health issues) and we got snowed in on Tuesday because of a snow storm in Western Kansas. Denver dodged the snow but it was cold. THe sun broke through at noon and my brother in law got a wild hair - lets go fishing! By 1pm we were off to the closest option - highway fishing on clear creek up the canyon from Golden. Not a great option but I needed to get out badly. Low expectations arent a bad thing. On our third stop up the canyon, we found a deep ice free hole and spooked a fish on our way down. First one we'd seen. About 30 minutes into fishing the hole with deep nymphs, I got this one out of the tail end of the pool.

God smiled on me yesterday in more ways than one, but this was one of those smiles.