Pecos River, July 3rd

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So...the Pecos River.  It's where I get my fix when I'm up for only an hour drive and know I can be home by noon.  It's stocked like crazy, it's trashed, it's crowded.  And yet, I found two stretches of unfished water on a Sunday morning.  The first is at the Bert Clancy Recreation Area up to the bridge.  The next was back down a few miles where's there are a few small parking spots next to the river before a stretch of private water.  And good news, the stockers aren't scared off for long even if someone already fished your stretch.  
I forgot my polarized sunglasses, so I had an awful lot of trouble seeing my fly on the water, but I caught a bunch of small browns and some stocked rainbows.  The browns seemed to go for the dry fly more, with the rainbows going for the nymph (prince, copper john, pheasant tail, anything really).  

At the second spot, I finally caught a slightly larger brown, maybe 12 inches.  Again, it would be nice to have some better management so the fish could grow a bit bigger.  I saw a gutted fish rotting on the side of the road that someone had trashed, I imagine because they were over the limit and saw game and fish approaching.  

Anyway, I can't wait until fall on the Pecos, when it's less crowded, and there might be some bigger fish. ​