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Report at a Glance

General Region	Littleton, CO
Specific Location	Waterton Canyon
Dates Fished	9/9/06
Time of Day	7a-11a
Fish Caught	Several small raindows an a 13" brown
Conditions & Hatches	The flow was at 65.9, and the clarity was decent. No big hatches, there where spotty midge hatches and I noticed some Baetis later when it clouded up.

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Sundula
Littleton, Colorado

Posts: 35

Sundula on Sep 10, 2006September 10th, 2006, 6:26 pm EDT

Effective Flies:
Mercury RS2 #22, Mercury Black Beauty #24, Pheasent Tail #20.
The rainbows where holdiing in the well oxygenated pools and the brown was in a deeper riffle