The South Fork of the San Miguel was very fishy during runoff for me and if you find yourself up in Telluride earlier in the summer and runoff blues it hitting you hard, the south fork can yield some fiesty browns in a scenic adventure.  I only caught browns in here though I know the main river of the san miguel downstream of here holds all four trout species (rainbow, brown, brook and cutthroat) so I suspect there are more than just browns in here, but I went 20 for 20 on browns in the lower stretch.  About 5 miles up the road, there’s a conservacy where catch and release fishing can be had and while the fish are a bit smarter there, they are plentiful.

I did a science experiment fishing a hole with a dry dropper, then fishing it again with a euro nymph rig.  The results met my expectations and the euro nymph rig out fished the dry dropper rig 2 to 1.  I caught about 20 fish that day and 1/3 of the fish were on the dry droppers that even got first cast priority on the water, and 2/3 of the fish were caught on the euro nymphs right after fishing it with the dry dropper.  That euro stuff really works I’ll tell you what.