Sand Spring to the boat ramp.

[fishinwrench]

Although the river guage didn't indicate it the water was up a bit and kinda cloudy today, and it was windier than all get out. My daughter and I started by picking away at the pocket water in the riffles and caught a half dozen between us by short-line drifting olive leech's. 

The kid stayed with the shallow/fast water game awhile longer, and I switched to a black&olive tungsten bead headed bugger and started concentrating on the slightly deeper tailouts.  Bites started coming for me pretty much every other swing..... although I was only connecting with 1/3 of the bites.    She changed up her rigging and we teamed up on every tailout from the bridge to the lower boat ramp.  She was keeping score and said that we had 16 to hand between us.......and beings as how she couldn't seem to recall who caught more, that means it was Me 😁 

1 decent Brown, and the others were 12-14" Rainbows.    We discussed making a second pass over the most productive areas, but because of the ridiculous wind we elected to go spend the last couple hours of daylight in the park to see if we could get a dryfly bite going.......We failed at that, but did really well during the last hour or so doing the same thing we had success with in the river.  Zone 3 is loaded with little Rainbows, but we zeroed on the Smallies. 🤷‍♂️

Cool lunch spot. Bet it won't last through the next high water event.