Rush River 8.27.15

We went on the Rush Thursday morning from around 8:30 to 12:00. The water is pretty much back to normal after the last rain on Saturday night. I started off using a pheasant tail and caddis larva combo and caught four smaller brookies. Around 9:00 I noticed that smaller fish were starting to rise to tricos so I figured that some bigger fish would be rising somewhere. After a few hundred yards of walking I finally found a good pool with some more active fish. I tied on a size 20 trico but I couldn’t get anything to take it. Right before I was about to change my tippet to 6X (I was too lazy to put it on in the beginning), a nice 14 inch brown sipped my fly off the surface. Later when I switched to 6X, I caught 5 to 6 more. I’ve been having the best luck on cool days with overcast skies.