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My arm was on the mend, the grannoms were on, and the fish were taking them in one of the streams that Spence fished. Tuesday was a numbers day, with fish taking flies everywhere: emergers in the flats and pools, egg layers in the riffles later in the day. Wednesday, with the cloud cover, the big fish came out to play. Did not hook as many, but the percentage was for larger fish, including a 20+ brown that jumped twice and threw the fly on the second jump. It took in an eddy on my side of the stream, then pealed across heavy current in front of a mostly submerged rock, zinging line off my reel. I thought for sure the line would hang on the rock but it popped free and into the air as I held the rod high. Just then the fish made its first jump on the other side of the river. Then the pulsing in the deep water among the rocks started. A number of fish large and small had popped the barbless hooks out on the slabs and shelves, and I thought this would happen here, but it was just after I had steered the tiring fish into my eddy when it made one last jump and shook out the hook. Oh well, a more than worthy opponent won his freedom and humbled me with his beauty and power. Most fish took a dry cdc fly, but some that refused this fly took a tent wing parachute. More on this and some entomology questions in another post.