Decided to hit up the Tilton again. Arrived and was in the water right around 8:30. I wanted to try experimenting with nymphs and streamers on a sink tip in a few holes. Tried a beadhead pheasant tail, gold-ribbed hairs ear, peeking caddis, and eventually a wooly bugger. Didn't get any strikes in any of the holes, strikes were few and far between swinging them through riffles. Did hook and land a couple rainbows, and what appears to be a brown swinging a #16 peeking caddis...but not much else happening.

I did accidently snag a boot king on a wooly bugger. The damn thing didn't even know it was hooked until I put a little pressure on it, then it went bonkers. Once I released the pressure it just kinda sat there. I only had my 5wt rod with a 6x leader trimmed down to about 5' long. Was rather surprised it didn't break off right away.

I couldn't get the hook to pop out and everytime I put pressure on him to break the line...it started heading down stream and rolling. Did finally get the hook to pop without destroying my gear...but was an interesting couple of minutes.

Fished...or at least practiced casting until 6:00.